Useful corroboration that cocktail families can remain recognizable despite versioned ingredients, proportions, and service. The historical dating in the surrounding prose is not retained as authority.
The classic-cocktail section contrasts a sweet, fruit-heavy sports-bar version with a restrained recipe while preserving a shared drink form.
Greene treats materially different Old-Fashioned versions as variations within one recognizable architecture organized around bitters, sugar, whiskey, ice, and adjustable measures or order.
PDF sheet 31 (displayed p. 194)
Classic cocktails — Old-Fashioned
Text and page image verified against PDF sheet 31, displayed p. 194, on 2026-08-27.
Located evidence
Greene contrasts materially different Old-Fashioned versions while treating them as members of one recognizable architecture: bitters, sugar, whiskey, ice, and variable measures or order.
Context
The example appears in the classic-cocktail chapter. It supports form-level analysis rather than a claim that one recipe is original or definitive.
Research use
Use as practitioner corroboration that a cocktail family can tolerate versioned ingredients, proportions, technique, and service without losing its structural identity.
Boundary
The surrounding historical dating is not retained as authority. This evidence concerns recipe architecture, not cocktail origins.