Stir with cracked ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Lemon peel garnish.

Origin: Perhaps the greatest variation on the classic martini ever devised.

• 2 oz Plymouth gin
• 1 oz absinthe
• 1 dash orange bitters

Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.

• 1 ½ oz Tanqueray No. Ten gin
• ½ oz Lucid absinthe
• ½ oz maraschino
• 1 tsp Campari
• ¾ oz grapefruit juice
• 3 dashes cherry bitters

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Flamed orange peel garnish.

• 1 oz Blue Coat gin
• ¾ oz green Chartreuse
• ¾ oz maraschino
• ¼ tsp absinthe
• 1 oz lime juice
• 1 oz egg white

Dry shake fiercely to emulsify the egg white. Add ice, shake again, and double-strain into a cocktail glass.