Cocktail Boothby's American Bar-Tender by Wm. T. Boothby (1891, p.20)
| 1 pony | Whiskey | base |
| Aromatic bitters — bitters | bitter | |
| pineapple syrup — Included conservatively because the OCR-soft line remains readable in structure but not perfect in quantity. | sweetener |
- Shake with ice.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
This kind of fruit-modified cocktail is useful for showing how ornate syrups and tropical notes were already entering the core aromatic field.
Boothby's use of shaking marks it off from the plainer stirred aromatic cocktail line.
The drink sits on a border between aromatic cocktail logic and the sweeter decorative service world.