171. Hoffman House Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  1 oz Aviation American Gin
  1 oz Dolin Dry
  2 dashes Regan’s Orange Bitters
  
Shake 30 seconds, strain into cocktail glass. Twist lemon over glass, garnish, and serve. — This recipe from the famed Hoffman House bar appears previously in the Savoy Cocktail Book (1930) but in no prior JM edition. The Savoy specification of Plymouth gin is omitted in favor of a generic denomination. The Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book adds this note:

I have used a softer American in view of the apparently original call for Plymouth:

18. Aviation Cocktail

A couple preliminary remarks are due here. Firstly, this is clearly not the Aviation Cocktail that predominates today, but the signature in-flight cocktail featured on a certain airline cocktail menu, which eventually fell out favor. You might sometimes find this cocktail called Aviation #1, which suits me fine. Jack knows of crème Yvette, but not of the Aviation #2. Secondly, note that the math doesn’t quite add up. The proportions are actually in relation to separate jiggers, as clarified in Jacques Straub’s 1914 book:

My interpretation:
  2.25 oz Laird & Co. Applejack
  0.75 oz fresh lime juice
  1 dash Grand Absente absinthe
  6 dashes (2 barspoons) Rose’s Grenadine

Shake well over ice, strain, garnish with lime wedge. The absinthe works here in a way similar to the Monkey Gland, and really takes it a notch above the “Applejack Cocktail (Special)” in a previous post.