313. St. Peter Cocktail

My interpretation:
  2 oz Beefeater Dry Gin
  1 dash fresh lime juice
  1 dash gum syrup

Shake with ice 20 seconds, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — The third “saint” in Straub provides JM1916 and 1933 with this variation on a Gin Cocktail sans bitters, lime for lemon, sanding the edges of the dry gin very neatly. It might conversely be considered a sort of boozy, gin-forward Gimlet, easy on the additives (another drink in the Miscellaneous section, the Lime Kiln, forms the opposite pole, with a proportionally greater quotient of lime and syrup, of which two the Gimlet (not otherwise represented in JM) would represent the average.