This was the eponymous cocktail of the Embassy Club in Hollywood and according to Dale dates from 1930. (Editor's note: this date falls into that inconvenient time period known as "Prohibition", so either this date is an approximation, or the Embassy Club was a speakeasy!)

Consisting of brandy, Cointreau, Appleton Jamaican rum, and lime juice with a little bitters, this cocktail has a punch-like structure that is both classic and a little trendy right now. I really like the flavor and even more I like that it has one of those Negroniesque recipe of equal parts of each spirit, which makes it easy for partially brain-dead barkeeps like myself to remember ( I catch myself selling a lot of Last Words and Blood & Sands for this reason.) This is a cocktail that I think would be fun to experiment with as you substitute various rums, or even combinations of rums. Enjoy!