Glad Eye Cocktail

Serve in a Martini glass...
1½	fl oz	La Fée Parisienne Absinthe Superieure
1	fl oz	Giffard Menthe Pastille white crème de menthe liqueur
1	fl oz	Chilled water (reduce if wet ice)

Display recipe in:

How to make:

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

Garnish:

Star anise

Comment:

This minty aniseed cocktail takes more than its colour from the green fairy.

About:

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

Buy ingredients

Buy direct from The Whisky Exchange

£42.75

Makes this drink 15.56 times

£19.95

Makes this drink 23.33 times

Approximately £0.00 per cocktail *

* price per cocktail is an estimate based on the cost of making one cocktail with the above selected ingredients.

Previous Cocktail

De La Louisiane #2 (equal parts bourbon)
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Next Cocktail

Gloom Chaser Cocktail #2
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Cocktail shakers & how to shake a cocktail

Shaking not only mixes a drink, it also chills, dilutes and aerates it. Along with stirring shaking is the most common technique employed to mix cocktails.

How to strain a cocktail

When straining a shaken drink, a Hawthorn strainer tends to be used, but when straining a stirred drink it is traditional to use a Julep strainer. Both designs of strainer allow...

Absinthe

Nicknamed the ‘Green Fairy’, Absinthe is a bitter, aniseed-flavoured green liquor distilled with anise, fennel and wormwood. It has a reputation to challenge that of a Class A...

Highballing classic cocktails with Schweppes

Two comments by Mr Highball himself, Jörg Meyer, “you can highball any cocktail”, and “a highball is a short drink made long” left me wanting

Tequila Cocktails - the best tequila based cocktails

With its earthy herbaceous flavours, tequila makes for a both versatile and interesting cocktail base spirit. Traditionally mixed with orange (think triple

01:59

CÎROC French Vanilla Cocktails

After trying the newly launched CÎROC French Vanilla Vodka which we rate highly, we jumped at the offer of having World Class champion bartender, Jamie

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Welcome to
Receive updates packed with drinks, bars and cocktails content
Please confirm you are over 21 years old and enter your email
No thanks, continue to diffordsguide.com