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Joshua Perez
27th June 2025 at 13:27
Do you know when rum was introduced to this cocktail? I see in Stan Jones' Complete Bar Guide, under "East India Cocktail" (page 274), that Jamaican rum is listed as an optional ingredient. More recently, PDT's Cocktail Books also adds aged rum to their East India, but I haven't found anything before 1977.
2nd November 2025 at 12:45
Jim Meehan’s recipe is essentially the same as the East India No. 3 published in Victor Bergeron’s 1972 ‘Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide, Revised.’