204. La Roche Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  0.75 oz Castle & Key Dry Gin
  0.75 oz Dolin Dry
  0.75 oz Lustau Vermut
  2 T fresh orange juice

Frappé (shake with cracked ice), strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This Bronx riff (resembling a perfect martini with OJ) comes in equal portions for easy preparation and makes a decent brunchtime libation. Its first appearance in JM 1912 (1910s) is in paragraph form rather than list form, which to me suggests borrowing from another, older-style source, like Boothby, which uses paragraphs. However, I have been unable to locate any possible source to date. Jack’s instruction to “frappez” here is rare, and as such, difficult to interpret precisely. He may simply mean shake hard with ice, or else he may refer to crushed or shaved ice being placed in the glass with the strained drink; but then, the instruction to shake is absent. I take it here as an synonym for shake.

144. Fowler Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Castle & Key London Dry Gin
  0.5 oz Dolin Dry
  2 barspoons Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
  2 T fresh orange juice

Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — This recipe, resembling the oldest versions of the Bronx as a martini riff with a small portion of sweet vermouth and orange juice to sweeten and round it out, first appears in JM 1910 (2nd edition) and continues without change to 1933.