The Original Sazerac Cocktail
Judge Alexander wife's favourite libation ...
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Thank you so much!
I've just been learning more about absinthe since it's legal again and was intrigued when they mentioned it.
Absinthe is not legal in America. People who used absinthe wound up brain damaged and suicidal. Think: Ernest Hemingway, Toulouse Latrec and Vincent Van Gogh.
shareSorry, it's been legal in the US for quite a few years now. They've reduced the level of the chemical that caused many of the problems but it is in fact legal. Since 2007 I believe.
share1/2 teaspoon absinthe, or Herbsaint (a New Orleans brand of anise liqueur)
1 teaspoon of simple syrup (or 1 sugar cube or 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar)
4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
2 ounces rye whiskey.
Strip of lemon peel
The traditional method: Pack a 3-1/2 ounce Old Fashioned (rocks) glass with ice. In another Old Fashioned glass, moisten the sugar cube with just enough water to saturate it, then crush. Blend with the whiskey and bitters. Add a few cubes of ice and stir to chill. Discard the ice from the first glass and pour in the Herbsaint. Coat the inside of the entire glass, pouring out the excess. Strain the whiskey into the Herbsaint coated glass. Twist the lemon peel over the glass so that the lemon oil cascades into the drink, then rub the peel over the rim of the glass; do not put the twist in the drink. Or, as Stanley Clisby Arthur says, “Do not commit the sacrilege of dropping the peel into the drink.”