London Cocktail

This characteristically heady cocktail is given a frisson of danger by the inclusion of both gin and absinthe, the latter banned in France in 1914 (and in many other countries around the same time). At this point, Absinthe in France was like gin in England in the seventeenth century: widely available, often of dubious quality, highly alcoholic, drunk mainly by the poor, and blamed for everything from epilepsy to murder. Also, just like gin, it originated as a medicine (gin was supposed to c