The Bar-tender's Guide/Absinthe Cocktail

The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks (1887)
by Jerry Thomas
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Absinthe Cocktail.

(Use small bar-glass.)

  • Take 2 dashes of Anisette.
  • Take 1 dash of Angostura bitters.
  • Take 1 pony-glass of Absinthe.

Pour about one wine-glass of water into the tumbler in a small stream from the ice pitcher, or preferably from an absinthe glass. Shake up very thoroughly with ice, and strain into a claret glass.