Dry Martini No. 2
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a martini glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered olives.
Method
- 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
- 4 STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 5 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
- 6 Garnish with skewered olives.
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Flavour profile
29.5% alc./vol. · 1.6 standard drinks · 149 calories
History
A five-to-one Dry Martini with a split gin base and a splash of sherry.
Adapted from the sherry-influenced "Martini Cocktail No. 2" in the 1898 book Cocktails... How To Make Them. The dry vermouth, however, comes from the Marguerite cocktail in the same book. The split base of gins reflects the combination of two recipes. The Marguerite Cocktail: Bitters, Plymouth Gin, French Vermouth. Fill a mixing-glass half full of ice. Add three dashes of orange bitters, one-half jigger of Plymouth gin, one-half jigger of French Vermouth. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass. Place an olive in the bottom of glass and serve. Martini Cocktail – No. 1: Bitters, Gin, Italian Vermouth, Lemon peel. Fill a mixing-glass half full of ice. Add three dashes orange bitters, one-half jigger Tom gin, one-half jigger Italian vermouth, a piece of lemon peel. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass. Martini Cocktail – No. 2: Bitters, Tom Gin, Italian Vermouth, Sherry, Lemon peel. Fill a mixing-glass full of ice. Add two dashes Boker's bitters, one-half jigger Tom gin, one-half jigger Italian vermouth, half a teaspoon-ful sherry, piece of lemon peel. Mix, and strain into cocktail-glass.