The Spirits

The Spirits

The Spirits #57: Les Fleurs du Mal

~ Roses Are Red ~ Baudelaire's Carcass ~ Typhoid and Swans ~ Dirty Love ~ Wordle ~

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Richard Godwin
Feb 11, 2022
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~ LES FLEURS DU MAL ~

50ml rose-infused gin (see below)
20ml lemon juice
10ml golden sugar syrup
~20ml egg white
Drop absinthe

Place a cocktail glass in the freezer, so it’s cold when the time comes. Now, place the spirit, juice, sugar, egg and absinthe in the shaker with lots of ice. Shake hard until you can’t bear to hold the shaker any longer! (And then a …

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