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 (2:1); 15 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Spanish Monk
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₂ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or Vegan egg white replacement
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) - Eggs

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

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

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Variant:

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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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

Nutrition:

One serving of Spanish Monk contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
18.31% alc./vol. (18.31° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.