Now, that's a hangover.
The original gin sling from Fraunce's Tavern as of 1818:
1/2 cup scraped ice, 1 1/2 ounces gin, 1 ounce cherry and sassafras fermented syrup, 1/2 ounce oriental orange liqueur, 1/2 ounce brandy, 1/2 ounce aged port, juice from 1/2 a lemon, 3 ounces of hard apple cider, 2 tsps of bitters, shaken, 1 ounce of grenadine on top when served (not grenadine syrup, but the real thing with its own alcohol content, made from fermented pomegranate juices with added cane sugar)
Grenadine was initially touted as an aphrodisiac. Most of the pomegranate crops were grown on the British plantations in Jamaica next to plantings of cane sugar. The cane sugar was mostly processed as molasses for making rum to compete with the rum from Spanish Puerto Rico, where rum was invented. Rum rations and grenadine were guaranteed to British and American sailors. Grenadine was loaded with Vitamin C, preventing scurvy. Pomegranate juice only has 0.2 mg of vitamin C in a 1 cup serving 1% of the daily requirement, but real grenadine has up to 40mg in a 1/4 cup.
Cherry Fizz Sling from the Stork Club as of 1922
2 ounces of cherry syrup, 4 ounces of gin, shaken with crushed ice, strained into a tall glass with one ice cube, filled to the top with seltzer. Two servings.
From The Art of the Cocktail, published by the NY Times, 1948
If you get to watch reruns of the original Dick Van Dyke show, Mary Tyler Moore is always reading a copy kept on her night table as she and Dick are talking from their separate beds. Carl Reiner gave that copy to Mary as a joke because the original pilot had her greeting Dick when he came home with a cocktail for him, a dutiful wife's obligation in TV land. Mary didn't drink in real life at the time and didn't know how to make cocktails. Carl had worked as a part-time writer on the pilot and he had suggested Mary for the part after working with her on another failed pilot that was to have starred Steve Allen and his wife Audrey Meadows (Jane, Audrey's sister played Alice in the Honeymooners) running a Tin Pan Alley office. Singer Estelle Reiner, Carl's wife was friendly with Mary since that first failed pilot, she had been on the writing team and acted as one of the singers Steve was to supposed to represent. Mary was the receptionist, she also couldn't sing. Steve went on to host the Tonight Show with J. Fred McMurray, the chimpanzee.
Yes, I'm well into my third double Old Fashioned. My wife had two and she's unconscious. She has no tolerance anymore. She never did.
Old Fashioned:
1 1/2 oz Bourbon or Rye whiskey, 2 dashes Angostura bitters, 1 small sugar cube (about a 1/3 of the size of a regular sugar cube 1 tsp), few dashes plain water. Single barrel bourbon, muddled the sugar cube in a couple of dashes of water, poured in the bourbon, the bitters, stirred, poured over the rocks.