Asylum Cocktail

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Serve in

an Old-fashioned glass...
1½ fl oz Rutte Dry Gin
1½ fl oz Pernod anise
¼ fl oz Giffard Grenadine Syrup
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How to make:

POUR ingredients into glass without ice and STIR. Gently add ice and do NOT stir again. Consume once drink has turned cloudy.

Garnish:

None

Comment:

Seabrook said of this drink, "look like rosy dawn, taste like the milk of Paradise, and make you plenty crazy." He must have been a Pernod lover.

About:

Created by William Seabrook, famous for his account of eating human flesh, and first published in a 1935 book, 'So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon'.

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