Name: Quill
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Campari or other red bitter liqueur; 30 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 5 ml Absinthe verte (green)

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Photographed in an

UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Italian red bitter liqueur
1 fl oz	Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth
1/6 fl oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
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£ 19.95 £ 0.87 per cocktail, makes 23 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 51.50 £ 0.37 per cocktail, makes 140.5

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Review:

Basically a Negroni with dashes of absinthe.

Variant:

Quill Riff

History:

The Quill first appeared in the 1996 edition of Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails in which Andrew & Duncan MacElhone added 40+ cocktails to Harry MacElhone original books.

The Quill does not feature in earlier editions of Harry's books and in the 1996 edition his son and grandson credit this recipe to "Frank C. Payne, New York". Payne was one of a group of theatrical press agents who in 1930 formed the Theatrical Press Representatives of America (TPROA) as union to represent their interests, which they publicised through a magazine called The Quill.

Nutrition:

One serving of Quill contains 138 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
24.76% alc./vol. (49.52° proof)
23.5 grams of pure alcohol

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