Classically an equal parts three-ingredient cocktail comprising: 30ml rye, 30ml bitter liqueur and 30 ml dry vermouth. This produces an overly dry bittersweet...
Hey Simon, you’re right that the Old Pal first appears in Harry MacElhone (1927) but it was in a section called Cocktails Around Town written by Arthur Moss, a columnist for the New York Herald in Paris. In it, he credits his “Old Pal” William "Sparrow" Robinson, a sports editor for The New York Herald in Paris as the creator.