Bartender's Manual by Theodore Proulx (1888, p.32) — Theodore Proulx 1888
| 1 jigger | Plymouth gin — Defined as a regular cocktail made out of Plymouth gin. | base |
| Regular cocktail flavoring — regular cocktail flavoring | other |
- Prepare a regular cocktail, using Plymouth gin as the spirit.
- Summary
- A concise but useful gin-base checkpoint showing Plymouth called out distinctly inside late nineteenth-century cocktail logic.
This is useful because it preserves spirit-specific cocktail naming before later dry-gin standardization flattens the distinction.
The important evidence here is the named base substitution, not a newly independent method.
Compared with Whiskey Cocktail, this keeps the same cocktail grammar but shifts the base to a specifically named gin style.