The Bar-tender's Guide/Manhattan Cocktail

The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks (1887)
by Jerry Thomas
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Manhattan Cocktail.

(Use small bar-glass.)

  • Take 2 dashes of Curaçoa or Maraschino.
  • Take 1 pony of rye whiskey.
  • Take 1 wine-glass of vermouth.
  • Take 3 dashes of Boker’s bitters.
  • Take 2 small lumps of ice.

Shake up well, and strain into a claret glass. Put a quarter of a slice of lemon in the glass and serve. If the customer prefers it very sweet use also two dashes of gum syrup.