Name: Fen Ella
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 15 Fennel seeds; 60 ml Whisk(e)y - Scotch whisky (blended); 15 ml Apple Schnapps liqueur; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 5 ml Pastis; 10 ml Chilled water (omit if wet ice)

Serve in

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Fresh fennel or dill

How to make:

MUDDLE fennel in stirring glass. Add other ingredients, STIR with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass.

15 dried	Fennel seeds
2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1/2 fl oz	Apple Schnapps liqueur
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1/6 fl oz	Pastis
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if wet ice)
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Review:

Fennel and pastis freshen and delicately flavour Scotch with the merest hint of apple. Best made by infusing the fennel with the scotch whisky for a week or so rather than muddling.

History:

Created in July 2013 by Simon Difford at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

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Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
26.09% alc./vol. (52.18° proof)
24.8 grams of pure alcohol

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