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Comfort* on the rocks

Trader Vic's, San Franci [?sco?], New York, Los Angeles, Havana It's easy to keep any party off the shoals, when you smooth the rocks with Southern Comfort. jigger (11⁄2 oz.) Southern Comfort Pour into Old Fashioned glass with cracked ice or ice cubes. Add twist of lemon peel, stir gin...the long and short of it... DRY MARTINI 1⁄5 French type (dry) vermouth • 4⁄5 dry gin Stir with cracked ice, strain, add green olive or pearl onion. For a Vodka-tini, use vodka, omit the gin. GIN 'n TONIC juice & rind of 1⁄4 lime • tonic water jigger (11⁄2 oz.) dry gin Put lime, gin, ice cubes in 8 oz. glass, stir. Fill with tonic. Go Mexican—omit the gin—viva tequila! T'ain't no sin to skip the gin, when you use Comfort® instead. TOM COLLINS 1 tsp. powdered sugar • 1⁄2 jigger lemon juice jigger (11⁄2 oz.) gin • plain soda Dissolve sugar in juice, add ice cubes, gin, soda, stir. GIMLET 3 parts dry gin or vodka • 1 part Rose's Lime Juice Shake well with cracked ice, and strain into glass. CELERY BOATS Mash avocado. Season to taste with lemon jui[ce], salt, grated onion. Put mixture in 2-in. celery stalk[s]; add "sails" of potato chips and toothpicks.