384. Zazarac Cocktail

My interpretation:
  2 oz McKenna 10 Year Bourbon
  1 dash St. George Absinthe Verte
  1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
  1 dash Angostura bitters
  1 tsp sugar

Take chilled glass from cooler, dip rim in sugar, carefully strain stirred ingredients into glass over large lump ice, serve. — This fairly well-known cousin of the Sazerac, what might be called a Fancy Bourbon Old-Fashioned, yet legitimate in its own right, is described by Jack Grohusko from 1908 onward in the above manner, only that the name is spelt Zazarack until 1933, when the k is dropped. Straub himself effects this change earlier, along with specifying these differences: 1 dash of anisette is added over and above 2 dashes of absinthe, orange bitters are substituted for Peychaud’s, an option of bourbon or rye is given, and a lemon peel is twisted over the glass, nor is a sugar rim called for. Grohusko continues his recipe in 1916 unaffected by Straub’s variant. The Savoy Cocktail Book resembles Straub somewhat, with rum, Canadian club, gum syrup, anisette, angostura, orange bitters, and absinthe; this drink is shaken and strained into a cocktail glass and finished by squeezing over it a lemon peel.
 

348. Tucker Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Old Forester Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky 100 pf
  0.5 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth
  1 dash Angostura bitters

Pour ingredients directly in glass with large piece of ice and lemon twist. — This Dry Manhattan served down on the rocks appears first in JM1910. The instructions generally seem to imply that the lemon twist should be placed in the glass first before stirring.
 

327. Slome Cocktail

My interpretation:
  0.75 oz Old Forester Signature / 100 pf
  0.75 oz Martell VS
  0.66 oz Dubonnet Rouge

Fill shaker half-full with fine ice, frappé / shake vigorously 20 seconds, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This fine Bourbon-Brandy Manhattan riff (with Dubonnet doing double-duty for vermouth and bitters) first surfaces in Straub 1913. The formula yields a nice foam that lingers for a couple minutes if undisturbed, or pleasantly tickles the lip of the anxious imbiber. One wonders if the name is a corruption of Salome, and if it was thus another cocktail in commemoration of that erstwhile famous play / operetta (though nothing in the recipe suggests the exoticism met by the other recipe with its celery leaves).
 

153. Good Fellow Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Henry McKenna Bourbon Aged 10 Years
  1 oz Dolin Rouge
  1 dash Angostura bitters
  1 dash homemade Calisaya

Stir well (20–30 seconds), strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This cocktail first appears in Straub 1913 and is borrowed without change in JM 1916. The whisky formerly specified was Green River, which was touted as producing no headaches.
 

107. Crescent Cocktail

My interpretation:
  0.75 oz McKenna 10 Year
  0.75 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
  0.33 oz Amaro CioCiaro
  1 tsp homemade raspberry syrup

Shake well (20-30 seconds), strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — This Manhattan riff takes a cue from Jack’s very own Brooklyn, amps down the main ingredients, amps up the Amer Picon, dropping the bitters and making for a sweeter drink with bitter complexity from the Picon and just a touch of tartness. To augment the bitterness of the CioCiaro I opt for Cocchi amber vermouth.

 

78. Chauncey Cocktail

My interpretation:
  0.75 oz Asbach Uralt
  0.75 oz Bombay Sapphire
  0.75 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso
  0.75 oz Old Forester Signature

Fill mixing-glass with cracked ice, shake, strain, and serve. — This bracing Quartet comes from Straub 1913/1914 and may be named for the street in Brooklyn (named in turn for a US Navy lieutenant in the War of 1812) or else for the Brooklynite businessman and Baseball bastion George Chauncey (fl. late-19th c.).

71. Calumet Club Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Old Forester Signature 100 Proof
  1.5 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso
  3 dashes Extinct Chemical Co., Horsford’s Acid Phosphate
  1 dash Angostura bitters.

Stir with ice, strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — The acid phosphate is here a crucial component, adding a pleasant subtle tartness not achievable with citrus juices; without it we have a basic Bourbon Manhattan. The question whether to use ice, though no ice or straining is indicated in Straub’s recipe, must be answered in the affirmative, taking into consideration Straub’s typical brevity, the practice of the times which generally called for ice chilling and dilution, and the recipe in Washburne & Bronner’s Beverages De Luxe. which prescribes stirring and straining. Here it refers to the club in Chicago, Illinois. While a Calumet Club occupied a building at 267 Fifth Avenue in New York, since this recipe comes to us from Mr. Jacques Straub, a bartender of St. Louis latterly in Chicago, it is naturally to the Club of that City, organized in 1878 and located at 24 Michigan Ave., that its origin is trace, from whence, entering into Straub’s repertoire, it presumably passed into JM 1916.