Cocktail Boothby's American Bar-Tender by Wm. T. Boothby (1891, p.18)
| 1 pony | gin | base |
| 5 drop | creme de menthe | modifier |
| 1 pony | dry vermouth — French vermouth | modifier |
- Stir with ice.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
This is a good checkpoint for how quickly the Martini field was sprouting tiny aromatic side branches in the early 1890s.
The service stays firmly in the stirred vermouth-cocktail grammar even with the menthe accent.
The drink matters less for quantity than for how clearly it shows the Martini template being locally modified.