Recipes for Mixed Drinks by Hugo R. Ensslin (1917, p.32) — Ensslin 1917

0.5 drinkdry gin — El Bart Ginbase
0.5 drinkFrench vermouth — French Vermouthbase
0.5 drinkDubonnet modifier
  1. Stir well with cracked ice.
  2. Strain into a bar glass and serve.

Ice: Cracked ice

This matters because it keeps the low-proof Dubonnet-vermouth-gin field densely populated rather than reducing it to a single surviving template.

Its identity is entirely in the modifier balance and the small chilled serve.

See also: Dubonnet Cocktail, Mary Garden