Five hundred delicious drinks and no bar bill — Prohibition-eve refreshment from 1919, tea to temperance punch.

About the Book

1919Published

Helen Watkeys MooreAuthor

522Recipes

Helen Watkeys Moore published On Uncle Sam's Water Wagon in 1919, as the Eighteenth Amendment loomed: five hundred recipes for delicious drinks that need no bar — teas, punches, shrubs, cups and cordials. Built from professionally keyed text.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1919 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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