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Gin Cocktail
Old-Fashioned Holland
- Put a lump of sugar in a whiskey-glass
- Add enough hot water to cover the sugar
- Crust the sugar
- Add a lump of ice
- Two dashes Boker’s bitters
- Small piece of lemon peel
- One jigger of Holland gin
- Mix with small bar-spoon
- Serve with spoon in glass