meissonier cocktail

40% Dry Gin (1 1/4 oz Ford's)
40% Dry Vermouth (1 1/4 oz Dolin)
10% Jamaican Rum (1/4 oz Monymusk Gold)
10% Benedictine (1/4 oz)
2 dash Angostura Bitters (1 dash)

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and garnish with a lemon twist.Two Wednesdays ago, I opened up the 1000 Misture book from 1936 and spotted the Meissonier Cocktail. It read like a rum-accented Poet's Dream of sorts and was very similar to the Portorico Cocktail from that same book with crème de banane instead of the Benedictine here. Once mixed, the Meissonier Cocktail offered up lemon, caramel, and clove aromas. Next, a light caramel-driven sip opened up to gin, herbal, funky rum, and allspice flavors on the swallow.