133. Farmer’s Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  1.25 oz Castle & Key London Dry
  0.75 oz Dolin Dry
  0.5 oz Dolin Rouge
  1 dash Angostura

Fill mixing-glass 1/3 full with cracked ice,  frappé (shake with fast, short strokes, rotating mixing-glass), strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This Perfect Martini riff produces a bit more than usual to accommodate more easily the precise proportions, so I use a small wine, but it could be divided up into two vintage glasses. Its first appearance is in JM 1908, calling for Chappaz and Ballor as the preferred vermouths. Straub 1913 reproduces the recipe.
 

132. Fancy Brandy / Gin / Whisky Cocktail

 The next recipe is a category or style of service specifying any of three base liquors. My interpretation:
  2 oz Western Grace brandy, Gin Lane 1751 London Dry, or Old Forester Signature
  1 dash gum syrup
  1 dash Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao
  1 dash Angostura bitters

Shake (sic) with ice, strain, twist lemon peel over drink, garnish, and serve. — This recipe, also copied by Straub in 1913, continues unchanged from JM 1908. Especially good if you like cloudy, aerated liquors!

131. Fairbanks Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Gin Lane 1751 Lond Dry
  0.5 oz Dolin Dry
  0.5 oz Rothman & Winter Apricot
  1 dash lemon juice
  1 dash Jack Rudy Grenadine

Shake well (30 seconds) with ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with cherry (here Amarena). — The first recipe to appear in Jack’s Manual under this name resembled the Evans with a larger portion of Apricot:

After 1916, Jack must have gotten wind that Douglas F. didn’t drink this one, or else he was corrected by the 1930 Savoy Book, whose Fairbanks No. 1 this recipe closely resembles; the Savoy’s gin-based Fairbanks No. 2 does not, however, resemble the old Rye and Apricot one. Straub has the Rye-Apricot-Boker’s recipe and further specifies using an Old Fashioned glass. Pictured here is the later 1933 recipe in the Savoy Cocktail-Book style.

130. Express Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz The Famous Grouse
  1 oz Dolin Rouge
  1 dash Regan’s Orange Bitters

Shake with ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This Rob Roy riff, substituting orange bitters for angostura, appears in Straub 1913, from whence it is borrowed by JM 1916.
 

129. Ewing Cocktail

My interpretation:
  2 oz Hochstadter’s Straight Rye
  3 dashes Angostura bitters

Fill mixing-glass with ice, stir, strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — This traditional whisky cocktail with an extra dose of bitters appears in Straub 1913, from whence it is borrowed by JM 1916. Mr. Ewing liked his whisky bitter.
 

128. Evans' Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  2 oz Hochstadter’s Straight Rye
  1 dash Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao
  1 dash Rothman & Winter Apricot Liqueur
  1 dash Fee Brothers Cardamom Bitters (Boker’s Style)

Fill mixing-glass with cracked ice, stir 30 seconds, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This JM 1908 standby, a variation on a traditional “fancy” whisky cocktail, originally called for Boker’s Bitters, though this specification soon fell away before the 2nd edition in 1910 (I use Fee Brothers cardamom in tribute to this, and it fits really well with the profile). The apostrophe in the name was added in 1933. Straub borrows the recipe in 1913, omitting bitters altogether. Note that I have taken apricot brandy to indicate the sweeter, fruitier brandy-based liqueur, rather than a drier brandy distilled from apricots; this is supported by the small dosage required, suggesting a more flavorful quality.
 

127. Emerson Cocktail

 My interpretation:
  1 oz Hayman’s Old Tom Gin
  0.5 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
  0.5 oz fresh lime juice
  3 dashes Luxardo maraschino

Fill shaker with cracked ice, shake, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — Borrowed without change from Straub 1913 for JM 1916, this interestingly balanced mixture hovers between a Martinez and an Aviation, a sort of Martinez sour (as some have noted) which does best with a slightly bitter vermouth.

126. Emerald Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Jameson Caskmates Stout Edition
  1 oz Dolin Rouge
  1 dash Fee Brothers Orange Bitters

Fill mixing-glass with ice, stir, strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — Borrowed from Straub 1913 for JM 1916 without alteration. A Bobbie Burns riff substituting orange bitters for Benedictine.

125. Edner Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Dubonnet
  1 oz Gin Lane 1751 London Dry

Fill mixing-glass with cracked ice, stir, strain into cocktail glass, twist orange peel over glass, garnish, and serve. — The Edner Cocktail, resembling closely the standard Dubonnet Cocktail, is an old JM standby from 1908, originally using the aperitif St. Raphaël, this being replaced by the similar Dubonnet sometime before 1916, presumably because it was no longer available in the US, or else for the sake of economy, after the Dubonnet Cocktail was added to the repertoire and claimed a spot on the shelf.
 

124. Dutch Charlie's Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Hochstadter’s Straight Rye
  1 oz Dubonnet
  0.5 Dolin Rouge
  2 dashes Angostura bitters

Fill mixing-glass with ice, stir 30 seconds, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — From Straub 1913, this vinous Manhattan riff was borrowed for JM 1916, changing the original 1:1:1 recipe to 2:2:1.
 

123. Duplex Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Old Forester Signature
  0.5 oz Martini & Rossi Extra Dry
  0.5 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino

Stir in mixing-glass with ice, strain into cocktail glass, and serve. — A perfect Manhattan, hold the bitters, first appearing in JM 1916. A Straub 1913 recipe (identified as an alternate of the “Albern”) is, somewhat more logically, equal parts dry and sweet vermouth with two dashes of orange bitters. The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book uses the same recipe, specifying as alternative to orange bitters two squeezes of orange peel.