Mappin and Webb recipe cocktail shaker
Mappin and Webb recipe cocktail shaker
A good and very useful 1920s Mappin and Webb silver plate and gilt recipe cocktail shaker.
The shaker shows the recipe for many favourites and some unusual ones too:
Whisky sour
Alexander
Bacardi
Between the sheets
Bronx
Clover club
Dry martini
Dubonet
Gin Ricky
Manhattan
Old fashioned
Orange blossom
Palm beech
Side car
Tom Collins
Recipe cocktail shakers emerged alongside the rise of mixed drinks in the 19th century. Early bartenders like Jerry Thomas popularised measured combinations, encouraging tools that could both mix and guide proportions. By the late Victorian era, shakers with engraved recipes or measuring lines appeared, helping home entertainers recreate fashionable drinks.
During the 1920s these shakers became both practical tools and conversation pieces, often decorated with Art Deco designs. They allowed users to follow classic formulas without books. After mid-century decline, interest revived in the craft cocktail movement, restoring recipe shakers as nostalgic functional barware.
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