Makes 1 cocktail.
Ingredients:
- 3/4 oz. gin (preferably Plymouth or Death's Door)
- 3/4 oz. Cointreau
- 3/4 oz. Lillet Blanc
- 3/4 oz. fresh lemon juice (squeezed from an actual lemon)
- 2 drops of absinthe
Pour the gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blanc and lemon juice to your cocktail shaker. Then, add no more than 2 drops of absinthe. Add ice, then shake well (until you can't do it anymore!), then strain the wondrous, lemon-y concoction into your glass.
Enjoy!
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looks dangerously good. will see if it puts my lights out. thanks.
Yeah! I finally have a recipe to use the Absinthe i snuck back from Prague two years ago -- the real stuff! I was about to get out Moulin Rouge, to watch the scene with Ewan McGregor in the bath tub drinking Absinthe to get the right steps down to "properly" drink it. And of course, Ewan in the tub again wouldn't be a bad thing to watch.! Just finished printing out all the recipes .... and wait to tray them as pool party drinks!! THANKS RACHAEL! LOVE YOUR SHOW -- NEVER MISS IT!!!
Jim
Psst? Hey Jim? You could really indulge with an actual absinthe spoon? Seriously, Google it: http://images.google.com "absinthe spoon." And these spoons aren't ..um.. illegal. They are stunning examples of the art of silversmiths. And wormwood, from which absinthe is derived, is also a beautiful, silvery, lacey, fuzzy-leafed plant that you can grow without fear.
;-)
-bleuz00m
You guys are aware that "real" absinthe has been legal in the states since 2007, right? The absinthe Maddow used is St. George Spirits absinthe, made in California.
I also hate to tell you this, but Czech absinthe is nothing but a curse word among absinthe connoisseurs. Absinthe was never made in that region historically, only in recent years since their laws are loose and their economy is bad. Most of them are poorly made, have neon green food coloring and taste horrid.
just added Lillet Blanc to my shopping list! When does the Cocktail Recipe book come out? oh speaking of books - I just bought my ticket - See you in chicago April 13th Rachel!
Rachel asked for a Corpse Reviver Number 1, so here it is:
1/4 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Carpano Antica)
1/4 Apple Brandy or Calvados. (3/4 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/2 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Maison Surrenne Petite Champagne Cognac)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
From: http://savoystomp.com/2008/07/27/corpse-reviver-no-1/
Love the Cocktail Moment, but it's not really a Corpse Reviver #2 unless you use something that mimics the original Lillet formula, which had a bitter quinine flavor (hence the original name Lillet Kina). Lillet Blanc was introduced as a less-bitter reformulation of the aperitif in the 1980s. An Italian liqueur named Cocchi Aperitivo Americano is the best substitute as it contains cinchona bark, which was the original source of quinine. Also, happy to see you using St. George Absinthe, which is made right across the SF Bay in Alameda, California. St. George also makes three kinds of gin for your drinking pleasure. Cheers!
Dear Rachel,
A few of us were just chatting about your Corpse Reviver 2 over on Facebook, and we have a real request: please make a Maddow Mixology app that would add a new cocktail every so often. If there were videos we'd be simply giddy. Please. Please? Oh what joy and fun! All the best to you and Susan.
How about making a Black Russian AND recall the history of its invention (which, according to legend, was at the Metropole Hotel at De Brouckere Square (both still exists, although a giant Coke sign and a horrendous looking subway station entrance have changed the surroundings as of late) in the year 1930 in order to satisfy the thirst of a Soviet diplomat). Or how about the Cuba Libre. cocktail that symbolizes Cuban "creativity" after the 1959 revolution and is made with rum and... coke)? Just two ideas.
This only cheapens your 'national' efforts. Drinking is not 'cool' though it is fun to the point of loosing consciousness in laughter.
OK, so I'm watching late on a Friday on the podcast (not prison!), and I'm given to waxing (waxing!) poetic over the preserved version of Jeremy Bentham in his cupboard.
Yes, it does make poetic sense to have a 360 degree PANOPTIC view of the good philosopher! But perhaps the corpse itself ought to be kept in a more VISIBLE cupboard.
I think he of all people should be forced to be visibly exposed in a 360-view glass case, maybe in the center of a rotunda somewhere. And he shouldn't have any way of knowing whether anyone or everyone is looking at him (with or without the reviving cocktail).
Seems to me that that form of display would truly give the greatest good to the greatest number.
Whose corpse are we drinking to? Does this involve having a seyonce? Give me the keys I'll drive.
Dear Rachel,
i am almost insulted but I'll let it slide because we love you here in San Diego. I own many eyedroppers (they come in our little bottles of liquid SweetLeaf stevia) and I use them to add 6 to 10 drops of water to my new favorite drink, single malt Scotch! My current brand is the Kirkland branded 20 year old, finished in Sherry casks from Speyside. Highly recommend it. I can send you some eyedroppers if you like.
Thanks for all the great shows,
Hugs to you and all your staff and Susan,
Daniel Ogas
Oh, forgot to mention a find we made on our last trip to Vancouver Island. Just off the east coast of VI is are two smaller islands, Denman and Hornby. On Hornby Island there is an amazing distillery, Phorg (frog). Started and run by a former ice breaker Captain, Pete Kimberly and his business partner, an organic chemist, Naz. Petes philosophy is that he wants to make the best booze in the world while remaining retired. IMHO he has succeeded!! I do not care much for gin but the stuff he makes is so yummy, you can only get the stuff at the distillery and it is definitely worth a visit. Send a staffer or take a little vacation and check it out. Would love to see Petes booze on the Cocktail Moment.
http://www.islandspirits.ca/
CHEERS!!!!
That has to be the most expensive drink ever!
This is a GREAT drink. I was frustrated when Rachel first had this on, but I could get the recipe.
So of like lemonade with a REAL kick.
Makes 1 cocktail.
Ingredients:
Pour the gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blanc and lemon juice to your cocktail shaker. Then, add no more than 2 drops of absinthe. Add ice, then shake well (until you can't do it anymore!), then strain the wondrous, lemon-y concoction into your glass.
Enjoy!
Athough "Corpse Reviver" is a great name for this cocktail, I'd also put in my vote for the "Left Behind": the go to drink for the rest of America left behind by the surging equity markets/DOW.
Speaking of revived corpses, I stumbled upon a bizarre and twisted rightwing video that is certainly eye-opening.
What a crazy view into an insane worldview! It starts slow, using techniques of direct mail writing to lead you deeper into the video by talking and talking, but not giving away what it is talking about.
But as you get further in, you get to it. All the paranoid conspiracy stuff is just a front for an investment pitch for frakking oil shale mining.
WATCH IT. I hope the folks at TRMS will watch it too. Other-worldly.
BTW, just to MAKE SURE no Maddowfans get sucked in to that nutjob's wackado writing style and buildup, please note that his research firm has been accused of fraud and has had to pay fines for such.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Stansberry
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/08/meet-porter-stansberry-the-fraudster-behind-ominous-newamerica3-ads/
Whoa... thank YOU for sharing this, Chris. Oh, don't get me started about the fracking shills and their lies. I live in Pennsylvania and have seen the destruction of farmlands, watersheds, families' illnesses and livestock killed by leaking wastewater ponds, of homes abandoned due to methane migration. Hydraulic fracturing is SUCH a scam.
-bleuz00m
Wild stuff, isn't it? I'm originally from the Midwest, and some parts of western Wisconsin and Minnesota are being turned upside down for FRACK SAND, of all things, to be shipped out to North Dakota.
It's just godawful, what it is doing to the landscape in the little rural hometown where I grew up. Rolling hills and orchards and deer hunting woods that go back generations, being basically stripped into massive quarries, for the particular round quality of the Ice Age glacial sand there. And the dust is killing people too. My cousin, working her dad's old farm in an area dotted with parts of farms owned by all my distant relatives, now has a bunch of spots in her lungs, along with shortness of breath.
Some farmers around Winona, Minnesota have died from it.
That's not even counting what's being done in the Dakotas and Montana. It's just horrific.
Better than a paring knife for the two drops of absinthe is a simple, cheap wooden chopstick. Holds one or two drops of anything marvelously.
My bartender's book has a Corpse Reviver #1 *and* a #3 -- someone posted the recipe for #1 above, and #3 is kind of like a stinger, in that it has brandy and creme de menthe and tastes like mouthwash. Bleagh.
Zombie roams the halls of Congress and the Supreme Court?
A curious confluence here:
With thanks to Jon Stewart's Daily Show [3/2/13] Rachel adroitly reported on Justice Scalia's dismissive "racial entitlement" statement as the words of "a troll." All this points to a zombie invasion which has already infected the weak-willed in Congress and the US Supreme Court.
Roy Blount Jr. broke this story yesterday, during NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" radio news quiz show segment called 'Predictions:'
" ROY BLOUNT JR: Strom Thurman is back, and as you know, zombies don't need to use the bathroom. "
src: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=35
"The record for the longest filibuster goes to U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, according to U.S. Senate records.
Thurmond began speaking at 8:54 p.m. on Aug. 28 and continued until 9:12 p.m. the following evening, reciting the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, President George Washington's farewell address and other historical documents along the way.
Thurmond was not the only lawmaker to filibuster on the issue, however. According to Senate records, teams of senators consumed 57 days filibustering between March 26 and June 19, the day the Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed. "
via http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/tp/Five-Longest-Filibusters.htm
Just had to share this revelation with the mighty TRMS crew and fellow 'Mad for Maddow' Newsvine peeps. ;-)
-bleuz00m
a PS to 'Zombie roams the halls of Congress and the Supreme Court?'
Inquiring minds don't need to know if/how/when Senator Thurmond may have relieved himself during that Voting Rights Act 24-hour-long filibuster. TMI. Perhaps Strom Thurmond was a zombie even then? Senator David Vitter's supply of diapers were busy; Mr Vitter was only three years old at the time....
;-)
Only got as far as the absinthe...mmmm gooood. Rachel, I would really like you to explain to us about the differences between prepaid social entitlements (social security, civil service retirement, medicare) and tax payed loophole entitlements (corporate subsidy's, jets, yachts, additional homes) and the way GOP portrays tax loopholes as increasing taxes rather than reducing taxes. And why doesn't the Administration take more time to explain this talking points misdirection by the GOP.
oops! correction....and the way GOP portrays removing tax loopholes as increasing taxes rather than reducing taxes. (guess the absinthe kicked in)
I guess that is a good easter drink. We have ham and hard boiled eggs of many colors. They thing I don't like about religion is that preachers and priest are always the first to cast the stones. They are almost all Republicans and 75% of the Republicans are racist. I love the rebirth of nature, literature and Christ (don't tell my family). A lot of people look at the earth being made in seven days and will not except the true age of the earth and the universe. I look at the big bang and the complex nature of life and I think yes their is a higher being or power. I do think all religions may be correct but with human mistakes.
From a bartening/cocktailnerding/politico... I have to say that you are doing your country a great service by spewing out the truth, and also informing people on what they should be drinking. Thank you,... I wish I could tip you :)