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Orange Pride
Put one tablespoonful of orange juice and pulp with three tablespoonfuls of vanilla syrup into a glass one fourth full of cracked ice. Fill up with any charged water, and place a spoonful of whipped cream on top.
A single soda-fountain drink, written for someone standing behind a counter with a syrup pump and a carbonated-water draft arm. Everything in it is available at home; the proportions just assume equipment you may not have.
- Vanilla syrupNot vanilla extract and not commercial coffee syrup. Fountain vanilla syrups were generally a heavy simple syrup (formulas vary, but something on the order of two parts sugar to one of water, dissolved warm) flavoured with vanilla; three tablespoons of it is what sweetens the whole glass.
- Charged waterPlain carbonated water, drawn from a siphon or fountain. Club soda or seltzer is the direct substitute; tonic and flavoured sparkling waters will fight the vanilla.
- Glass sizeA fountain glass of the period held about 10 to 12 ounces. Filling one a quarter full of ice and topping with soda leaves roughly a cup of liquid, so this makes one drink.
- Cracked ice, not cubesCracked ice chills faster and lets the soda foam up through it. Wrap cubes in a towel and hit them with a rolling pin, or use the coarsest setting on a crusher; fine crushed ice waters the drink down.
- Orange juice and pulpSqueeze fresh and do not strain, or the drink is just sweetened orange soda.
- Order of assemblySyrup and juice go in first so the carbonation stirs them as it rises. Add the soda slowly against the side of the glass, or the whipped cream cap will sit on a head of foam instead of the drink.
- The whipped creamLightly sweetened or unsweetened cream whipped to soft peaks, spooned on rather than piped. The syrup already carries all the sugar the glass needs.
To be "on the water wagon" was American slang for having sworn off liquor, and a book called On Uncle Sam's Water Wagon belongs to the wave of soft-drink and soda-fountain collections that appeared in the years when temperance sentiment was hardening into national policy. The drugstore fountain was the institution these recipes drew on: by the 1910s it was a genuine social room, and the men who worked it kept ranks of flavouring syrups, a marble counter and a carbonic-acid draft arm to combine on order. The whipped cream on top makes it a fancier drink than a plain soda, of a piece with the ice-cream sodas and sundaes that came off the same counter.