Name: Fifty-Fifty Martini Cocktail
Yield: Makes 1 drink
Ingredients: Cracked ice; 1 ½ ounces London dry gin, such as Tanqueray; 1 ½ ounces dry vermouth, preferably Noilly Prat; 2 dashes orange bitters; Small piece lemon peel

Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell

Cocktail historian David Wondrich prefers his Martinis this way—that is, with equal parts gin and vermouth, as they were served circa 1910. To achieve the right flavor balance, he suggests using a high-proof, full-bodied gin that can stand up to the vermouth. For the sake of historical accuracy, he also recommends straining the drink into a chilled cocktail coupe (a stemmed glass with a wide, shallow bowl), because the martini glass as we know it didn't come on the scene until the 1920s.

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