Drinks

Medicine for Melancholy

By: Hannah Lee Leidy
Photo by Heidi Geldhauser Harris
Photo by: James Smith

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yields

Makes 1 cocktail

    ingredients
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  • 4 cucumber slices, divided
  • 1½ ounces vodka (the Lobby Bar uses Tito’s
  • ½ ounce absinthe, for rinse
  • ¾ ounce basil simple syrup
  • ¾ ounce lime juice
  • ½ ounce St-Germain
  • ½ ounce absinthe, for rinse
steps

Muddle 3 of the cucumber slices in the bottom of a cocktail tin, then fill with ice. Add next four ingredients and shake well. Rinse a coupe glass with absinthe, discarding extra, then strain drink into coup. Garnish with remaining cucumber slice.

  • Recipe from Lobby Bar at Hotel Clermont in Atlanta, Georgia

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