Dr. Mitchill’s Cocktail

Name: Dr. Mitchill's Cocktail
Cook time: PT0D0H5M
Total time: PT0D0H5M
Yield: makes one cocktail
Ingredients: 2 tsp. honey; 1 1 ⁄ 2 oz. Smith & Cross Jamaican rum; 1 large ice cube; Freshly grated nutmeg, to garnish

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The prominent New York physician and politician Samuel Mitchill described this bitters-less version of one of the first cocktails in an 1820 temperance lecture; it still cocks the tail.

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Yield: makes one cocktail

Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

2 tsp. honey
1 <sup>1</sup>⁄<sub>2</sub> oz. Smith & Cross Jamaican rum
1 large ice cube
Freshly grated nutmeg, to garnish

Instructions

In a 6-oz. tumbler, stir honey with 1⁄2 oz. hot water until the honey dissolves. Pour in rum, 1 oz. cold water, and 1 large ice cube. Stir well and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

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