Note: This page (42) in the 1933 edition of Jack’s Manual seems to be missing its attributions to distinguish which vermouth is needed. Now, we could go back to the original recipe for this famous hotel cocktail. But comparative historic mixologists need look no further than the enlightening 1916 edition of the Manual:
My interpretation:
1 dash Fee Brothers Orange Bitters
1.75 oz Uncle Val’s Restorative Gin
1.25 oz Martini & Rossi Extra Dry mixed with Dolin Blanc.
Stir over ice, strain into cocktail glass, garnish with lemon rind.
Following the 1933 edition as much as possible, I decline the Old Tom Gin. Either tastes changed after Prohibition, or Old Tom couldn’t be got so easily anymore, or (since Jack still calls for Old Tom elsewhere) the recipe was altered. And here again I felt a little softening of the vermouth with Dolin Blanc was called for—perhaps that touch of sweetness which the Old Tom would have provided.
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