Though it shares its name with a song written to commemorate the American Bicentennial in 1976, this cocktail is much older, appearing in The Flowing Bowl, an 1892 cocktail book written by the German-born, New York-based bartender William Schmidt. It doesn’t read particularly American ingredients-wise despite the patriotic moniker, either: the juice of one lime, brandy, a dash of Jamaican rum and a large tablespoon of ice cream, shaken “exceedingly well” and strained into “a fancy glass.”