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Obituary Cocktail

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Martini cocktail variation called an Obituary with a lemon twist in a cocktail glass on a metal tray.
Photo by Colin Price

Basically, this is a Martini made intriguing by a splash of absinthe. If this ends up being your deathbed drink, you didn’t do too badly.

Ingredients

2 ounces gin
¼ ounce dry vermouth
¼ ounce absinthe

Preparation

  1. Combine all the ingredients except the lemon twist in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe. Express a lemon twist over the drink and drop into the glass.

3-Ingredient Cocktail cookbook cover with illustration of three martini glasses in blue, orange, and tan.
Excerpted from 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon © 2017 by Robert Simonson. Photography © 2017 by Colin Price. Reproduced by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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