Absinthe herbal liqueur short-drink recipes

Absinthe Cocktail recipe

Shake well with cracked ice. Strain into cocktail glass.

Absinthe Curacao Frappe recipe

Stir ingredients and pour over crushed ice in a deep-saucer champagne glass. Add an orange slice.

Absinthe Drip recipe

Add absinthe and one large cube of ice to an old-fashioned glass. Place an absinthe spoon across the top of the glass with the sugar on it, and pour drops of water onto the spoon. The water will drop through the holes in the absinthe spoon.

Absinthe Flip recipe

Shake ingredients well with ice. Strain into a prechilled Delmonico glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.

Absinthe Martini recipe

Stir well with ice. Strain into a prechilled cocktail glass. Very pleasant with an onion stuffed olive. Some bartenders pour a soucon of Absinthe into the glass, swirl it around and then add the martini.

Absinthe Minded Martini recipe

Properly chill 1 cocktail glass. In mixing glass with ice, pour gin and absinthe, and stir. In your cocktail glass, roll 1/2 oz of dry vermouth and throw away the excess. Strain other ingredients into cocktail glass and float 1/2 oz of grand marnier over top. Garnish with orange peel.

Absinthe Olde-style recipe

Pour the Absente liqueur (legal to import), granulated sugar, and 20 drops (approx 1/2 tsp) liquid wormwood extract (available from many health food stores -- Herb Pharm is a good choice) into a shaker with ice. Shake well, strain into an old-fashioned glass, and serve.

Absinthe Suissesse recipe

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Bloody Fairy recipe

Pour absinthe over ice, add cranberry to taste, and top off with tonic.

Death Dream recipe

Mix absinthe with the aftershock, then add the pernod and drink straight down stick to 1 to 2 any more in one session and your likely to wake up and not remember a thing.

Fairy's Kiss recipe

Combine absinthe with cola in a glass filled with ice, easily the best way to drink absinthe.

Green Fairy recipe

Shake thoroughly with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Green Fairy Blood recipe

Mix ingredients in above order over a sugar cube on an absinthe spoon, light the cube and when the flame dies immediately stir in the sugar until it dissolves; serve.