My interpretation:
1.75 oz Castle & Key Gin
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
0.25 oz carbonated water
Stir gin and bitters with ice, strain into cocktail glass, add cold carbonated water, twist lemon peel, garnish, and serve. — One of several cocktails named for colleges of the Ivy League, this version, first appearing in Straub 1913, has proved the more prosaic and less popular than the other Princeton, which layers port and Old Tom gin and orange bitters (this is found in Barflies & Cocktails, 1927 and Savoy, 1930). At least the light fizz of the soda on top produces something a little more interesting than the Gin Cocktail. Old Waldorf Bar Days, the putative originator of the drink, and at least flagship of the New York / American school of early 20th c. mixology, has the present Gin-and-Soda thing, specifying Old Tom Gin, which seems to commend itself to this simple recipe, and also be supported by the generic term “gin” here, which in the JM tradition more often than not means the older standard Old Tom (or Ancient Thomas).
1.75 oz Castle & Key Gin
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
0.25 oz carbonated water
Stir gin and bitters with ice, strain into cocktail glass, add cold carbonated water, twist lemon peel, garnish, and serve. — One of several cocktails named for colleges of the Ivy League, this version, first appearing in Straub 1913, has proved the more prosaic and less popular than the other Princeton, which layers port and Old Tom gin and orange bitters (this is found in Barflies & Cocktails, 1927 and Savoy, 1930). At least the light fizz of the soda on top produces something a little more interesting than the Gin Cocktail. Old Waldorf Bar Days, the putative originator of the drink, and at least flagship of the New York / American school of early 20th c. mixology, has the present Gin-and-Soda thing, specifying Old Tom Gin, which seems to commend itself to this simple recipe, and also be supported by the generic term “gin” here, which in the JM tradition more often than not means the older standard Old Tom (or Ancient Thomas).
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