The Ideal Bartender by Tom Bullock (1917, p.27) — Bullock 1917
| 2 dashes | Lemon juice (fresh) — Lemon Juice | acid |
| 1 teaspoonful | gum syrup — Gum Syrup | base |
| 1 jigger | Whiskey | base |
| 2 dashes | orange bitters — Orange Bitters | bitter |
- Fill a large bar glass half full with shaved ice.
- Stir, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Ice: Shaved ice
This matters because it shows another whiskey branch sitting between aromatic and sour logic rather than neatly inside one later category.
The build stays stirred despite the lemon, which is exactly the kind of period ambiguity worth preserving.