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.

196. Jockey Club Cocktail

 This term for the Gin Cocktail first appears in Straub 1913. See The Gin Cocktail.

175. Howard Cocktail

My interpretation:
  2 oz Big Gin
  1 dash Angostura bitters + 2 dashes
   
Stir with ice, twist lemon on top, drop extra dash of Angostura bitters on top, serve. — This recipe appears in Straub. The corresponding pages in the 2nd and 3rd editions of Jack’s Manual are not visible, but it does not appear in 1908. A cocktail by this name in the Old Waldorf-Astoria Book (1935) calls for Tom Gin stirred with 1 dash orange bitters, 2 dashes Angostura.

151. Gin Cocktail

My interpretation:
   2 oz Castle & Key London Dry
   1 dash Angostura bitters

Stir in mixing-glass half-full of cracked ice, strain into cocktail glass; twist lemon peel, serve. — This traditional gin cocktail recipe goes back to Jack’s Manual 1908. By contrast, Straub calls for “1 or 2” dashes of Orange bitters, no mention of lemon peel.