#232 Cocktail: Preakness

   "Ooooh, the weather outside is frightful,
     And this cocktail is so delightful"

  I thought about this when I was going home today, through a snow storm, to make this cocktail.
  Historians tell us that George Backert, head barman at Baltimore’s Emerson Hotel, invented the Preakness Cocktail as a contest entry. It seems the Pimlico racetrack owners were looking for a good evening cocktail to serve at the first Preakness Ball in 1936, and Backert’s simple twist on the classic Manhattan won the honor of becoming the first official cocktail of the afterparty. ( https://cold-glass.com )

2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey 

1 ounce sweet vermouth

Benedictine to taste

Angostura bitters to taste