Thursday, June 20, 2013

Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway


Pour one (1) jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass.
Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness.
Drink three to five of these slowly.
 


Ernest Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon Cocktail'

A recipe verified in the 1935 humoristic celebrities' cocktail book titled
So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon.
Hemingway wrote: "This was arrived at by the author and three officers of the H.M.S. Danae after having spent seven hours overboard trying to get Capt. Bra Saunders' fishing boat off a bank where she had gone with us in a N.W. gale."
Pour one (1) jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass.
Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness.

Drink three to five of these slowly.



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