• Use a gin glass
• 1/3 of a glass of water
• 1/2 spoonful of sugar
• Dissolve the sugar well
• 2 or 3 dashes of bitters (Angostura)
• 1 small lump of ice
• 2-3 glass of gin
• Wish a piece of lemon peel and drop in the glass
• Mix well with a spoon, and
• Serve

This drink is extremely popular with elderly persons who have been good fellows for a generation.

Daly’s Bartenders’ Encyclopedia by Tim Daly, 1903