Right about now is the time when Wall Street strategists and economists begin ratcheting down GDP estimates and tempering their optimistic year-beginning calls with a dash of bitters and a dollop of doubt.

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One of the first references to this cocktail was published in New York in 1896 in "Stuart's Fancy Drinks, " which refers to a Marguerite Cocktail a dash of orange bitters, French vermouth and Plymouth gin.

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True to the classic, it combines rye whiskey, Peychaud bitters, Angostura bitters and a dash of sugar, garnished with a lemon peel.

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