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The idea for Lost Cocktails came while researching another project about homesteading techniques (lostwitandwisdom.com). I was serendipitously finding cocktail guides and resources on bartending from the 1800s to the early 1900s in the pre-prohibition era. In these books I found a world of amazing and sometimes curious cocktail recipes and bartending techniques and tips that seemed too interesting to keep to myself. Some of the interesting tips that I found: • How to arrange your bar and attend to customers • Lists of drinks that were expected to be memorized by an experienced bartender • How to take a cork out of a bottle without a corkscrew • Common measurements • How to serve c ...