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Spirit-forward · Stirred · Historical · complexity 2/5

The First One

An Old Tom gin and creme de menthe cocktail with gum, orange bitters, and lemon oil.

Served in Goblet. Ice: Fine ice.

Variants (2)

The Flowing Bowl by William Schmidt (1892, p.127) — The Flowing Bowl 1892

squeezelemon oil — lemon peel oilacid
2 dashgum syrup — gumbase
1 ponyOld Tom gin base
1 dashorange bitters bitter
0.5 ponycreme de menthe modifier
  1. Stir gum, creme de menthe, Old Tom gin, orange bitters, and expressed lemon peel oil with fine ice, strain, and serve.

Ice: Fine ice

Manual del Barman by Antonio Fernandez (Tony) (1924) — Tony 1924, mint Old Tom gin cocktail

1 twistlemon peel acid
1 chorrogum syrup base
1 small glassLondon dry gin — Old Tom ginbase
1 chorroorange bitters bitter
0.5 small glasscreme de menthe modifier
ice other
  1. Stir with ice in a large glass and strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Ice