Showing posts with label dry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dry. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2018

119. Dry Martini Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  1.0 oz Hawthorn’s London Dry Gin
  1.0 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry

Fill mixing-glass with cracked ice (crack in your hand if you wish), stir, strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — A Dry Martini in the old day obviously gets you a wet one by today’s standard. The “Dry” here is to distinguish the type of Vermouth used, not the ratio. A regular martini would thus call for equal parts Sweet Vermouth and Gin stirred without addition of bitters or garnish, as shall be seen at the proper place.


Turning the Page

Greetings! We have come to the end of the Cocktails section from Jack’s Manual (1933). In the process of our study, we have discovered so...