#240 Cocktail: Oriental

      The cocktail was adapted from a recipe in "The Savoy Cocktail Book" 1930, which also notes that an American man desperately ill with fever in the Philippines in 1924, gave the doctor who saved his life the recipe for this drink by way of thanks.
       The original recipe was made with rye whiskey, but Gaz Regan offered a choice of whiskey styles and also changed the adding of curacao to triple sec to cut a little the sweetness of the drink

1 1/2 ounce rye whiskey or bourbon

3/4 ounce sweet vermouth

3/4 ounce triple sec

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice