Shake all ingredients vigorously in a cocktail shaker for about a minute or until the egg white has thoroughly mixed with the liquids and becomes frothy. Add ice cubes to the cocktail shaker and shake well. Rub the rim of an Old-fashioned glass with a lemon slice, then dip in a plate of sugar so that the sugar sticks to the rim. Fill the glass with ice cubes and strain the mixture into it. Garnish with an orange slice and maraschino cherry, and serve.

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The whiskey sour is a well-known mixed drink containing Bourbon whiskey, lemon juice, sugar, and optionally, a dash of egg white to make it a Boston Sour. It is shaken and served either straight or over ice. The traditional garnish is half an orange slice and a maraschino cherry. A notable variant of the whiskey sour is the Ward 8, which often is based either in Bourbon or rye whiskey, with both lemon and orange juices, and grenadine syrup as the sweetener. The egg white sometimes employed in other whiskey sours is generally not included in this variation. In 1962, the Universidad del Cuyo (Argentina) published a story which cited a Peruvian newspaper called El Comercio de Iquique as indicating that Eliott Stubb was the creator of the "whisky sour". El Comercio de Iquique was published by Modesto Molina between 1874 and 1879. The story said that the English steward of a sailing ship named "Sunshine". In 1872, Elliot Stubb obtained leave to disembark in the port of Iquique, a Peruvian city, with the aim of settling in the cit...

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