Sour (cocktail) claims the White Lady (gin, Cointreau, fresh lemon juice). The recipe appears in his "Savoy Cocktail Book", published in 1930. Joe Gilmore, former Head Barman at The Savoy, says this was one of Laurel and Hardy's favorite drinks. In John le Carré's 1965 novel "The Looking Glass War", British spy and main protagonist Fred Leiser's favorite drink is a White Lady, and he makes several attempts to get other agents to try the cocktail. In Dorothy Sayers' mystery novel "Have His Carcase" Lord Peter has a White Lady when he hears about his "Lady" Miss Harriet Vane being in trouble
Tert-Butyl alcohol Tert-Butyl alcohol tert"-Butyl alcohol (TBA), also called tert"-butanol or "t"-butanol, is the simplest tertiary alcohol, with a formula of (CH)COH (sometimes represented as "t"-BuOH). It is one of the four isomers of butanol. "tert"-Butyl alcohol is a colorless solid, which melts near room temperature and has a camphor-like odor. It is miscible with water, ethanol and diethyl ether. "tert"-Butyl alcohol has been identified in beer and chickpeas. It is also found in cassava which is used as fermentation ingredient in certain alcoholic beverages. "tert"-Butyl alcohol is derived commercially from isobutane as a coproduct of propylene oxide production. It can also