I don’t know whether anyone has ever sat down and sorted it all out in detail, but once you start looking, it’s apparent that large numbers of recipes that appear in the Savoy were lifted from earlier books, most egregiously Harry McElhone’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails (1923, 1927, etc.), Hugo Ensslin’s Recipes for Mixed Drinks (1916/1917), and Toye & Adair’s Drinks Long and Short (1925), all without credit. It’s particularly easy to pick out the drinks from Toye & Adair because they’re all batch recipes for four or six people.
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