An amateur mixologist prepares and assesses the cocktails and miscellaneous drink recipes in Jack Grohusko's mixed drinks manual.
Monday, August 13, 2018
141. Four-Dollar Cocktail
My interpretation:
1 oz Gin Lane 1751 London Dry
0.5 oz Dolin Dry
0.5 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
Stir in mixing-glass half-full of ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This recipe, first appearing in laconic Straub 1913 (we have added the instruction to stir with ice) and borrowed for JM 1916, is the definition of a Perfect Martini, that is, a Martini with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth. The name is humorous. At the time of Straub, a cocktail was about 20 cents, in 1933 about 30 on average. In today’s dollars, that would make this a Hundred Dollar, or Two Hundred Dollar, cocktail; perhaps Double Benjamin rolls of the tongue better?
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