A fizz, or gin fizz, as it is mostly made of gin, is a beverage containing some carbonated liquid, usually soda water, together with gin or other alcoholic beverage and sugar. Often milk or cream is used with beverages of this kind. A celebrated gin fizz is made in New Orleans, and is known by the name of its originator as the Ramos. This drink is made of gin, sugar, lemon juice, white of egg, with vanilla or other flavoring essence and some seltzer water. These are all shaken together, and afterward cream or milk added and shaken until an emulsion is produced. This is a very popular drink in New Orleans and has spread to many other parts of the country.

Appetizers, or, as known in France, Aperitifs, as, for instance, Amer Picon and Dubonnet, are drinks which are somewhat of the nature of a cocktail, though usually they come ready mixed and are supposed, like the cocktail, to be taken before the meal to stimulate the appetite. These appetizers are not known so well in this country under their own name, but are included under the cocktails, but in France they are very common.

Toddy, if true to its original signification, is an alcoholic beverage made in connection with a roast apple, though now the name "toddy" has been extended to a variety of drinks very much of the quality of a cocktail. In looking through the list of toddies in one of the new bartenders' guides I do not find the old-fashioned toddy described at all. The mixtures which are sold under the name of "toddy" might just as well be called "cocktails."