With the origin of the cocktail being about making crude spirits tasty through the addition of juices and other sweet liquids, the cocktail by its very nature tends to be diluted (and therefore less alcoholic), versus the traditional neat serve or on the rocks ideal for spirits.
According to a Reuters dispatch, in his letters Einstein ordered Maric to keep his clothes and rooms neat, serve him three meals a day, and "renounce all personal relations with [him], except when they are required to keep up social appearances".
You can form frico into small individual crackers for neater serving, or you can make one large cracker the size of your pan and break it apart as you devour it.
This was a neat square served on a plate, though it had a higher fruit-to cake ratio than most peach cakes.
Leg of lamb, slow-cooked on the rotisserie, is sliced off in neat rounds, served on top of creamy polenta and garnished, if that's the word, with an enormous head of bitter radicchio di Treviso grilled to a state of juicy limpness.
Moreover, the presented neat formulae serve a verification tool for the researchers actively working in the field, particularly when numerical methods are employed to investigate more complex phenomena.
To serve it, I left the ginger behind and laid the pineapple in neat rows on serving plates, finishing them with a sprinkling of salt and pepper.
Mr. Cain suggests serving it neat with dark chocolate, mixed with Campari or in a Champagne cocktail.
In my father's essay, he says of White: "Frequently there is overwriting, Wolfeian in quantity, and examples of syntax that would set grammarians shuddering; White's plots, too, are not nice and neat with every incident serving them.
The rum will be served neat, on the rocks and in cocktails.
