Cocktail Recipe: Monkey Gland

[Attjack]

Monkey Gland

• 1½ oz gin
• 1½ oz fresh orange juice
• 1 t. grenadine
• 1 t. simple syrup
• 1 t. absinthe

Add the gin, orange juice, grenadine, simple syrup, and absinthe into a shaker. Add ice and shake until well-chilled.

Strain into a cocktail glass.


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I used to think I didn't much care for absinthe but when I made this drink recently I really liked it including the absinthe component.

[Huskee]

It sounds good, except for "gland" being in the title... I don't know much about absinthe, but I remember reading it's hard to get, maybe even illegal in some places? Is this true or is this an antiquated thing from back in prohibition or something? (Yeah I could Google it but I'd rather ask people I know). Also, what does it taste like?

[Huskee]

Attjack that's what I thought I remembered reading, black licorice-ish. Yuck. I'd be willing to give it a try though, it looks and sounds great. I'm not a big rosemary fan but it makes Memphis Dust better, so I totally get it.

[Attjack]

Huskee If you try it you might want to get a smaller bottle of it. A lot of recipes with it call for rinsing the glass with absinthe which is pouring some in a glass, swishing it around, and dumping it out. I prefer to put some in a little mister and spray the glass instead because it's less wasteful. I do this with other stuff too like orange bitters, etc.

[Huskee]

Attjack I Googled absinthe and the stigma surrounding it. It was illegal in the US until 2007! And, according to what I'd read, outlawing it was scientifically unfounded, an old wives' tale that the wormwood part (just like you said) was a hallucinogen and was believed to have caused a skyrocketing crime rate way back in the late 1800s/early 1900s. It's interesting that it took them until 2007 to recognize the folly of this. 'The killers all wore blue shirts, so blue shirts make you a killer'.

[Attjack]

A little weird history on this drink. I had heard Serge Voronoff implanted monkey testicles into the human scrotum to treat impotence.

Monkey Gland: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Monkey Gland is a cocktail of gin, orange juice, grenadine, and absinthe created in the 1920s by Harry MacElhone, owner of Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France.

Some recipes substitute absinthe with pastis or Bénédictine.

It is named after the pseudo-scientific idea that grafting monkey testicle tissue into humans would increase longevity, the idea developed by the Russian doctor Serge Voronoff.

[Northern lights smoke]

It might help cure monkey pox

[Attjack]

I've already been inoculating myself.

[Murdy]

Or cause them

[hoovarmin]

Sometimes I wonder if you might be James Bond, but I don't dare say so out loud for fear I might be disappeared.

[fzxdoc]

...or covered in gold.

[hoovarmin]

fzxdoc exactly!

[fzxdoc]

I might drink it at home, but I wouldn't order it at a bar. Just can't get those words tripping down my tongue. "Uh, sir, I'd like a ..."

K.

[FireMan]

Ditto.