Underhill-Lounge

Froupe Cocktail
l Teaspoonful Benedictine.
1/2 Italian vermouth. (generous 1 oz Martini & Rossi Rosso)
1/2 Brandy. (Generous 1 oz Cerbois VSOP Armangac)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Another Savoy typo, it appears. Robert Vermeire calls this the “Fioupe Cocktail” and states, “Monsieur Fioupe is a familiar figure known all along the Riviera, by everybody, from prince to [...]

Creole Cocktail
1/2 Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (1 oz Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey)
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Carpano Antica)
2 Dashes Benedictine. (2/3 tsp. Benedictine)
2 Dashes Amer Picon. (2/3 tsp. homemade)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass. Twist lemon peel on top.
A very good cocktail, that, like the Brooklyn, has a real problem in the lack [...]

The Cornell Special Cocktail
1/4 Part Gin. (3/4 oz Tanqueray)
1/4 Part Benedictine. (3/4 oz Benedictine)
1/4 Part Lemon. (3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice)
1/4 Part Lithia Water. (3/4 oz Gerolsteiner Heavy Mineral Content Mineral Water)
Stir well and serve in cocktail glass.
Well, this one gave me a lot of trouble. I found some online sources that purported to [...]

Chrysanthemum Cocktail
3 Dashes Absinthe (1 tsp. Lucid Absinthe)
1/3 Benedictine (1 oz Benedictine)
2/3 French Vermouth (2 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze orange peel on top.
Well-known and very popular in the American Bar of the S.S. “Europa.”
The Chrysanthemum cocktail really surprised me. I expected it to be [...]

Brain-Storm Cocktail
1/2 Wineglass Irish Whisky (1 1/2 oz Red Breast Whisky)
2 Dashes Benedictine (1 Barspoon Benedictine)
2 Dashes French Vermouth (1 Barspoon Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
Squeeze orange peel on top. (Drop peel into mixing glass.) Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
I liked this one a lot, actually. It’s fairly subtle, as cocktails go. Whiskey, herbey, [...]

Bobby Burns Cocktail.*
1/2 Italian Vermouth (1 1/2 oz Carpano Antica)
1/2 Scotch Whisky (1 1/2 oz Compass Box Asyla)
3 Dashes Benedictine (Barspoon Benedictine)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
*One of the very best Whisky Cocktails. A very fast mover on Saint Andrews Day.
I am inclined to agree with [...]