Monkey gland (cocktail)
Gin-based cocktail
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The Monkey Gland is a cocktail of gin, orange juice, grenadine and absinthe created in the 1920s by Harry MacElhone, owner of the famous Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France.[1]
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TypeCocktail
Ingredients
- 45 ml gin
- 45 ml orange juice
- 1 tablespoon absinthe
- 1 tablespoon grenadine
Base spiritGin
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| Type | Cocktail |
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| Ingredients |
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| Base spirit | Gin |
| Website | iba-world |
| Standard drinkware | Cocktail glass |
| Served | Straight up: chilled, without ice |
| Preparation | Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. |
Some recipes substitute absinthe with pastis or Bénédictine.[2]
The cocktail combines the sweetness of orange with the herbal, slightly bitter notes of absinthe, resulting in a flavor profile that reflects both ingredients.[3]
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.[4]
