My interpretation:
1.5 oz St. George Botanivore
1.5 oz Dolin Extra Dry
2 T fresh lime juice.
Fill mixing-glass with ice. Shake, strain, serve in cocktail glass. — Named for an area of the Bronx, New York, this cocktail, or rather Sour or Gimlet varaiation utilizing Dry Vermouth as mild sweetening agent and imitating a Bronx Dry with substitution of lime juice for orange (remember, the Bronx Dry does not appear in JM until 1916, and the Bronx before that has only an orange twist, not juice), first appears in Jack’s Manual 1908 and continues without change to the 1933 edition—contrary to some claims that it first appears in the 1930s. It may be that Jack picked it up, with several other recipes, from the Waldorf-Astoria, but that book was not published until after the Sad Era. Straub 1914 picks it up, omitting the cocktail glass and serve part in keeping with his usual abbreviated style. It also appears in the Savoy cocktail book (1930). The drink is bracing but tart, and remained a steady shower throughout the JM editions.
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