Name: Jean Lafitte Cocktail
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rum - 6-10yr old Caribbean blended rum; 10 ml Triple sec liqueur (40% alc./vol.); 2.5 ml Absinthe verte (green); 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' 2 sugar to 1 water; 1 Egg yolk; 1 Peychaud's / Creole bitters

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

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

1 1/2 fl oz	Bacardi 8 year old rum
1/3 fl oz	Triple sec liqueur (40% alc./vol.)
1/12 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°brix)
1 fresh	Egg yolk
1 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
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Bacardi 8 year old rum, 70cl

£ 31.25 £ 2.02 per cocktail, makes 15.5 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 49.25 £ 0.18 per cocktail, makes 281 Peychaud's Aromatic Bitters, 8cl

£ 9.25 £ 0.23 per cocktail, makes 40

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Hazardous ingredients

Egg yolk is potentially hazardous if used incorrectly.

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Review:

Not dissimilar to spicy, fortified advocaat. Yumm!

History:

Our adaptation of the New Orleans classic named after the infamous privateer and hero of the Battle of New Orleans.

Nutrition:

One serving of Jean Lafitte Cocktail contains 178 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
30.59% alc./vol. (61.18° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

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