Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler (1895, p.42) — George J. Kappeler 1895
| lemon peel — piece twisted lemon-peel | acid | |
| 0.5 jigger | Old Tom gin — Tom gin | base |
| 3 dash | orange bitters — orange bitters | bitter |
| 0.5 jigger | dry vermouth — French vermouth | modifier |
- Add the orange bitters, Tom gin, and French vermouth to a mixing-glass half-full of fine ice.
- Mix, strain into a cocktail glass, add a piece of twisted lemon peel, and serve.
Garnish: Lemon peel
- Nose
- Dry vermouth and citrus push the drink toward aperitif sharpness while Old Tom keeps some softness beneath.
- Palate
- This sits on the road from the sweet nineteenth-century Martini to later drier gin cocktails, but it does not wholly abandon Old Tom richness.
- Finish
- The finish is dry, lemony, and neatly aromatic.
- Summary
- A transitional dry gin-vermouth cocktail from the Martini's widening family tree.
Entries like this are important because they show how many differently named gin-and-dry-vermouth cocktails existed alongside the emerging Martini idea rather than simply being absorbed into one inevitable canonical label.
Orange bitters keep the drink rooted in the older aromatic-cocktail world even as the dry vermouth pulls it forward.