Prevents a later New Orleans whiskey form from being projected backward into the Cocktail's early nineteenth-century documentary record.
The printed formula is a documentary milestone, not necessarily the invention date. Cognac, rye, Peychaud's, and absinthe histories require version-specific treatment.
Wondrich rejects the Sazerac-first-cocktail story and presents a modern whiskey-based formula from an undated supplement to Boothby's 1908 volume. He calls it the first printed formula of that version; the supplement's actual publication date remains unresolved here.
PDF sheet 259
PDF sheet 256
Chapter 7 — Sazerac Cocktail
Fresh audit, 2026-10-01: PDF 256–259, especially the source line on 257. Corrected the inherited 1908 formula-date claim: the supplement is explicitly undated. The reproduced ingredient is generic whiskey; rye recommendations on 258 are separate author commentary. Source attribution verified, publication priority not independently established.
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