I have several cocktail books that I find recipes in, and while I love books like The Savoy and Jerry Thomas, these 100-year-old guides often have recipes that are hard to follow or antiquated. With drinks like smashes and sangarees and measurement sizes like ponys and wineglasses, I browse through them regularly, but hardly ever choose recipes to make cocktails from.

One of the most useful recipe books I have, though, with a nice balance between old school and modern, is Trader Vic’s Bartender’s Guide. I was flipping through Trader Vic’s this weekend and found a tasty recipe for a Los Angeles cocktail. It’s rich and refreshing, with similarities to a Whiskey Sour. Try it out:

Los Angeles Cocktail

• in a shaker, combine:
• 1 1/2 oz of bourbon
• 1 dash of Italian (red) vermouth
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 egg
• juice of 1/4 lemon
• dry shake (no ice) the ingredients, then add ice and shake well
• pour into a cocktail glass or small old fashioned and garnish with a lemon slice