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Spanish Monk

Name: Spanish Monk
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Chartreuse Green; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or pinch of salt

How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Spanish Monk contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
18.31% alc./vol. (36.62° proof)
21.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

History

Adapted from a recipe published in Charles H. Baker Jr.'s 1951 The South American Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book or, Up & Down the Andes with Jigger, Beaker & Flask.

Consider the SPANISH MONK COCKTAIL, or COCTEL MONJE ESPAGÑOL, another Notable Work from the Bar-Book of Don Eduardo Lopéz, in Guayaquil, Republic of Ecuador.
Don Eduardo has been described in other pages. The Monk part of the title, we were advised, obtained through the monk-made liqueur: Chartreuse, which is I of our immortal favourites. Use only green Chartreuse, for best color. Also its 100-proof endows authority.
1½ oz best dry gin
½ pony Green Chartreuse
½ tsp lemon juice
2 tsp fresh Egg white
SHAKE hard with big ice and strain into stemmed cocktail glass. Garnish is I green maraschino cherry.
Charles H. Baker Jr., The South American Gentleman's Companion, 1951

Review

Herbal, tart and gin-laced, smoothed and mellowed by foaming egg white.

Variations/similar cocktails

Green Chartreuse tends to be paired with lime juice, while Yellow Chartreuse more often sits with lemon juice, at least in my mind. Indeed, when I looked for other cocktails with the combination of gin, Green Chartreuse and lemon juice, I found very few similar cocktails:
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David H 12w

For my personal preference I would reduce the Green Chartreuse and/or the simple syrup. Still quite balanced though.

trendomexico Premium Member 14w

Now I was a little lost why this is a different Last Word. The salt -amazingly. gives the difference, allt ime I make drinks to Gen Z -they hate egg fee brothers a must. But I like egg so went for the whole enchilada. I like it. Not very different, but good.

Egg McKenzie 1y

it's obviously a bit like a last word but without the BANG

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

More dry and sophisticated simplicity than its venerable mother, the Last Word. A wonderful cocktail.

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