Historical Drink Recipe of the Day

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"Lipstick" was the nom de plume of Lois Long, one of the original columnists for the New Yorker during the Roaring Twenties, when it was actually funny. She specialized in getting drunk as a lord, going from speakeasy to speakeasy all night, hiring a cab at 6:00 in the morning, throwing up twice in the back of the cab, crawling through the doors of the magazine's office building, throwing up again in the lobby, hauling herself to her typewriter, banging out her copy, donning roller-skates to deliver it to her assistant on the other side of the building, throwing up a couple more times, stripping naked because she was overheated, having sex with her husband (a cartoonist for the mag) on the couch in the lobby, having another drink to set her up for the day, passing out, and repeating the following evening. A bartender dedicated this drink to her, the consummate flapper.

Lipstick Cocktail
2 parts champagne
1 part gin
1 part orange juice
Splash pineapple juice
Splash cherry cordial

10 STIR
20 DRINK
30 GOTO 10