83. Christie Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Bombay Sapphire
  1.5 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry
  2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

Fill mixing-glass with ice. Stir, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This cocktail recipe, a “dry martini riff,” appears in JM 1908 and continues throughout, being picked up by Straub 1913/1914 with a couple changes, the name altered to “Cristie” (the spelling Christie is found in the index):

This recipe does not affect JM 1916, but there is another interesting development:

The Christie is displaced un-alphabetically to sit next to another Jack’s Manual standby, the Cris. The relationship is unclear, but both recipes, featured in every JM edition, are exactly the same except for the two dashes. Maybe Straub therefore decided to conflate them. (Note the New-Yorkish typo “Peychard’s.” Pronounce it like a New Yorker.) Both recipes find themselves in JM 1933 restored to their proper alphabetical place. More on the Cris in due time.