McKinley’s Delight
A Manhattan variant that dates from William McKinley’s successful run for the White House in 1896.
Old Fashioned
There is much to support the Old Fashioned’s claim to be the original cocktail. In fact if you take your definition of ‘cocktail’ from The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York (and frankly, where else are you getting your definition of cocktail from?) it neatly fits the criteria: liquor (in this case whiskey), bitters, sugar and water (in this case frozen). Like most cocktails of the nineteenth century,…