Name: Dry Martini (15:5 dumped) Franklin
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Gin; 15 ml Dry vermouth; 1 dash Orange bitters

Dry Martini (15:5 dumped) Franklin
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Glass:

Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
Prepare garnish of 2 skewered green olives.

How to make:

STIR vermouth with ice.
STRAIN and discard excess to leave the glass and ice coated with vermouth.
Pour gin and orange bitters over vermouth-coated ice and STIR.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with skewered olives.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Review:

A (roughly 15:5 ratio "dumped") Dry Martini named after Franklin Roosevelt and garnished with two olives.

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Variations/similar cocktails:

Other Dry Martini ratios, from 1:1 to 15:1 parts gin to vermouth.

History:

See the History and Evolution of the Dry Martini.

Nutrition:

One serving of Dry Martini (15:5 dumped) Franklin contains 183 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
29.37% alc./vol. (58.74° proof)
26.6 grams of pure alcohol

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David Teager

17th January at 20:22

“Vermouth coated ice.” Pish, tosh. Either buy good vermouth and make the drink like a sensible human in the proportions given, or just admit that you hate vermouth for some unexplained reason.
Seriously, how can you dislike vermouth but admit bitters?
(The 15:5 comment is simply nonsensical)

Simon Sedgley

21st June 2025 at 04:23

Our maths tells us that this is a 15:3 (not 15:5) ratio. Or are we missing something?

Tuber Magnatum

27th April 2025 at 22:35

So I have tried this twice, both made with Monkey 47 gin and Dolin Vermouth. The first time I followed Dick Bradsell's version as I had just read his article posted on this site. While strictly speaking not a "true" Franklin" it uses the same ratios but lemon as the garnish. Tonight I used the above recipe, and interesting for me, although my preferred Dry Martini is a 10:1 ratio with lemon garnish, between these two 15:5 versions, I preferred the above recipe with the olives and orange bitters. Go figure.

G. M. Genovese

30th January 2025 at 12:12

The Martini has spawned the dumbest array of technique variations. But I fall for trying every one of them. Y'all just like chilled, diluted gin. Cracks me up. Posturing science out of sousedness.