Green Fairy

Serve in Martini glass...
1	fl oz	La Fee Parisienne absinthe
1	fl oz	Freshly squeezed lemon juice
1	fl oz	Chilled water
¾	fl oz	Sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)
1	dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
½	fl oz	Pasteurised egg white

Display recipe in:

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

Comment:

An Absinthe Sour style drink served straight-up.

About:

Created in the 1990s by Dick Bradsell, London, England.

Previous Cocktail

Grand Sazerac
POUR absinthe into ice-filled glass and TOP with water. Leave the mixture to stand in the glass. Separately, SHAKE liqueur, bourbon and bitters with ice. Finally discard contents...

Next Cocktail

Green Hornet
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Cocktail shakers & how to shake a cocktail

Shaking not only mixes a drink, it also chills, dilutes and aerates it. Along with stirring shaking is the most common technique employed to mix cocktails.

How to strain a cocktail

When straining a shaken drink, a Hawthorn strainer tends to be used, but when straining a stirred drink it is traditional to use a Julep strainer. Both designs of strainer allow...

Absinthe

Nicknamed the ‘Green Fairy’, Absinthe is a bitter, aniseed-flavoured green liquor distilled with anise, fennel and wormwood. It has a reputation to challenge that of a Class A...

Tequila Cocktails - the best tequila based cocktails

With its earthy herbaceous flavours, tequila makes for a both versatile and interesting cocktail base spirit. Traditionally mixed with orange (think triple

Wimbledon cocktails

When Wimbledon kicks off the British summer has officially begun. Cue hordes of tennis fans making their annual pilgrimage to sit on Aorangi Terrace in

Difford's Cocktail Hall of Fame - the all-time best known cocktails

Of the nearly 4,000 cocktails on our database the following 73 stand out as the most eminent. We have particularly selected drinks which:

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Welcome to
Receive updates packed with drinks, bars and cocktails content
Please confirm you are over 21 years old and enter your email
No thanks, continue to diffordsguide.com