



GLASS



Cocktail glass





PREPARATION



A very cold glass is essential here: the cocktail must be drunk very cold for all the sharper flavours to really be appreciated, and for the pick-me-up factor.



So, pull out your cocktail glass from the freezer when it's ready, pour the gin, lemon juice, apéritif and orange liqueur in a shaker, making sure you've got plenty of ice in there. Add, preferably with a pipette, a dash of absinthe, and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds. Strain into your cocktail glass and serve. No garnish needed.



This is one of those cocktails that really demonstrates how 1+1=3: each ingredient brings out hidden flavours from the others. The ingredients are all measured in equal parts, the only one you'll really have to be careful with is the absinthe, since its flavour is very dominant and can easily overpower all the others. So, a small dash is really all you need.





NOTES



Corpse Revivers are not so much hangover cures as drinks intended to make your hangover more bearable. Various recipes exist, some more effective than others, some much tastier than others. The one we present here is, well, delicious... whether you're hung over or not. It was first listed in Harry Craddock's famous Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930.



We've listed a choice of two white apéritifs here. Kina Lillet is the one you'll find in Harry Craddock's book. However, Lillet's white apéritif has changed somewhat over the years. They use different ingredients, now, and got rid of the quinine. Cocchi's Americano has remained much more faithful to its recipe created in 1891 and is today much closer to the original French white apéritif.



