Ballantine Cocktail, as printed in The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, 1935, a collection of Pre-Prohibition, Classic Cocktails.

Ballantine

Stir in iced mixing glass and strain into chilled cocktail glass. 

2 dashes orange bitters
1/2 jigger of French vermouth
1/2 jigger of Plymouth Gin
1 dash absinthe 

The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book