About Town Cocktail Book by Joe Fitchett (1925, p.27) — About Town 1925
| 25 percent | lemon juice — Lemon Juice | acid |
| 1 squeeze | lemon peel — Lemon Peel | acid |
| 3 dashes | Angostura bitters — Angostura Bitters | base |
| 50 percent | gin | base |
| Soda water — Syphon | dilution | |
| 25 percent | Grenadine | sweetener |
- Serve in a tumbler over ice, fill up with syphon, and leave the squeezed lemon peel in.
Garnish: Squeezed lemon peel
Ice: Ice
This matters because it preserves a brightly colored pick-up drink on the highball border rather than in the stricter cocktail lane.