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Knockout Martini

Name: Knockout Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Dry vermouth; 5 ml White crème de menthe; 2.5 ml Absinthe

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Giffard Menthe Pastille white crème de menthe
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Martini glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint leaf.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with mint leaf floated on the cocktail or pegged/stuck with spot of honey to the rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Knockout Martini contains 175 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.85% alc./vol. (47.71° proof)
23.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry MacElhone's 1922 Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails and his 1923 Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails.

Knock-out Cocktail.
⅓ Gin, ⅓ French Vermouth, ⅓ Absinthe, 1 teaspoon-ful of White Mint.
Harry MacElhone, Harry's of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1923

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Review

A Fifty-Fifty Martini with notes of mint and absinthe.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Giffard Menthe Pastille 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$39.99 $0.27 per cocktail Giffard Menthe Pastille image

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 80 cocktails
$17.99 $0.22 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

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Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

I just wasted the rest of a bottle of Ford's working through fixing the flaws here (groan). I'm close... I settled on 50:40:15, though that vermouth could probably drop another 5-10 ml... Too much absinthe in the original recipe. Dropped it by half second try, still a bit much. Third time, just spritzed the glass with it, but that was a little too far. Maybe 2.5 ml is ideal. I don't know. I've run out of gin, folks.

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