Name: Martini Special
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Vermouth - Rosso (sweet) vermouth; 5 ml Orange flower/blossom water; 2 Absinthe verte; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in a

Martini glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

2 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
1/6 fl oz	Orange flower/blossom water
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Rutte Dry Gin, 70cl

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£ 43.95 £ 0.25 per cocktail, makes 175 Angostura Aromatic Bitters, 20cl

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Review:

A 'Sweet' Martini [it's dry and aromatic] aromatised with orange flower water, absinthe and angostura bitters.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Our Martini cocktail page details its evolution and other common variants.

More cocktails by Harry Craddock