Old Pal (cocktail)

Old Pal

Type	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume	Rye whiskey
Served	Stirred
Standard garnish	Lemon twist
Standard drinkware	Cocktail glass
Commonly used ingredients	One part Rye whiskey One part dry Vermouth One part Campari
Preparation	Mix the 3 ingredients in a mixing glass, and add ice. Stir to chill, and strain into a cocktail glass

The Old Pal is a cocktail made with Canadian Rye Whiskey, French Vermouth (dry), and Campari. It is similar to a Negroni, but with Rye whiskey instead of Gin and the use of dry vermouth instead of sweet vermouth.

This cocktail first appeared in Harry MacElhone's 1922 book, ABC of Mixing Cocktails. In the book he says the drink was invented by Sparrow Robertson, the Sporting editor of the New York Herald, in Paris. The drink possibly fell out of MacElhone's repertoire by 1927, when he published his next book, Barflies and Cocktails. In this book he swapped the Rye for Bourbon whiskey, and renamed the drink the "Boulevardier".^[1] Although possibly being abandoned by MacElhone, the recipe was published again in Harry Craddock's 1930 cocktail book, The Savoy Cocktail Book.

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