Supposedly the eponymous house cocktail at Manhattan’s Hoffman House in the 1880s, this drink makes its first written appearance in Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. (It is, oddly, not mentioned once in Charles S. Mahoney’s 1905 book The Hoffman House Bartender’s Guide: How to Open a Saloon and Make it Pay. A house highball, cooler, fizz, punch and Old-Fashioned are, however.) By now we are getting very close to the platonic ideal of the dry Martini—perhaps even more so in the Douglas Cocktail, also from The Savoy, which removes the orange bitters and adds an orange twist alongside the lemon twist.
Hoffman House Cocktail
The eponymous house cocktail at Manhattan’s Hoffman House in the 1880s.
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