286. Prince Henry Cocktail

My interpretation:
  0.75 oz Aria American Dry Gin
  0.75 oz Noilly Prat Rouge
  0.5 oz Hiram Walker Crème de Menthe (white)
  1 dash Regan’s Orange Bitters

 Frappé (shake vigorously with fine ice), strain into chilled cocktail glass, serve. — This cooling, minty Martini-riff appears first in laconic Straub, from which it is borrowed for JM 1916 without filling in the directions. Frappé drinks in this time are almost always strained. In the Old Waldorf Bar Book (1931), the Prince Henry is a Martini with a dash of crème de menthe on top, while the Prince is whisky with crème de menthe and orange bitters. This is further support for a Martini-style strained drink, rather than one served on fine ice (which frappé usually signifies today). The Old Waldorf Bar would be more trustworthy in this case than Straub, since it is based on the original recipe book to which Straub may or may not have had access. The 1935 revision by Crockett attributes the Martini-style drink to the commemoration of a visit by Prince Henry (Heinrich) of Prussia in 1902.
 

285. Prince Cocktail

My interpretation:
  0.75 Aria Dry Gin
  0.75 Hiram Walker Crème de Menthe
  0.5 Vermut Lustau

Fill mixing-glass with ice, shake, strain into cocktail glass. — Like most of the “P” cocktails, this one, a minty traditional Martini in approximate thirds, appears first in Straub before JM 1916, as usual in perfect thirds (before Grohusko’s adjustment). The Old Waldorf Bar recipe, which doesn't quite compute mathematically, has a whisky base (1/3) with addition of crème de menthe and orange bitters—A Martini-riff with mint (see the next recipe, No. 286); this drink ups the mint, drops the bitters, and lowers the vermouth. Thus Straub’s and Grohusko’s Prince Cocktail is a variant of the Prince Henry rather than a distinct drink. This also represents a sort of reversal of the Old Waldorf Bar Book recipes.

178. Hurricane Cocktail

My interpretation:
  0.5 oz Big Gin
  0.5 oz Hochstadters Rye
  0.25 oz Hiram Walker Crème de Menthe
  2 T lemon juice

 Shake well (20 seconds), strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This bracing cocktail is taken from the Savoy Cocktail Book (1930). The now more popular, tropical-style drink by the same name, invented only much later in the 1940s in New Orleans, is clearly unrelated, except for the large amount of juice.
 

115. Dimension Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz. Hiram Walker Crème de Cacao
  0.5 oz Asbach Uralt
  0.5 oz Hiram Walker Crème de Menthe, White

Shake with ice, strain, serve in dessert cocktail glass. — A dessert trio, apparently from Straub 1913, first borrowed for JM 1916 (in both of which it is spelled “Dimention” perhaps a reference to the menthe, perhaps not). Even at this ratio, the mint is the strongest note, which with the sweetness makes this ideal for after dinner.
 

97. Cold Deck Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1.0 oz Asbach Uralt
  0.5 oz Hiram Walker Crème de Menthe
  0.5 oz Dolin Rouge 

Fill mixing-glass with broken ice, shake well (20 seconds), strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This trio, named after a card-playing term and previously appearing the Savoy Cocktail Book (1930), is a variation on the Stinger / Brant theme, adding a little depth with the vermouth while maintaining the sweetness.

24. Barry Cocktail

This is an interesting entry that presents a few items for consideration. Firstly, be amused by the misattribution ’Frisco in the 1908 Edition:
 

Secondly, the method and description have an air of being borrowed from another source. This is not Jack’s natural voice.
 
My interpretation:
  4 dashes Angostura bitters
  1.5 oz Hawthorn’s London Dry Gin
  1.5 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso Sweet Vermouth
  5 drops (about 1 barspoon) Hiram Walker White Crème de Menthe 

In small mixing-glass with one large piece of ice stir mixture well (20 seconds), strain into small bar glass (cordial or lowball) and serve with ice water (separate glass). Squeeze lemon peel or twist lemon rind over drink and use for garnish. — A cooling bracer (more bracing if you use overproof / Plymouth gin) that would be just the thing to sip in a makeshift “Barbary Coast” booze-tent after a tiring day of hauling charred timbers and clearing blackened bricks from the remains of your recently burnt-down house in the City by the Bay (Jack’s First Edition came out a couple years after the Great Earthquake and Fire). And it comes with built-in mouthwash.