Asylum
3.7 22 ratings
Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a old-fashioned glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of star anise.
Method
- 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
- 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
Garnish
- 5 Garnish with star anise floated on surface.
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Flavour profile
25.6% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 175 calories
History
According to Seabrook, this drink "look like rosy dawn, taste like the milk of Paradise, and make you plenty crazy." He must have been a Pernod enthusiast.
William Seabrook, known for his account of consuming human flesh, created this cocktail, which was first published in So Red the Nose or Breath in the Afternoon, by Sterling North and Carl Kroch, in 1935. William Seabrook's ASYLUM cocktail 1 PART GIN 1 PART PERNOD DASH OF GRENADINE Pour Over Large Lumps of Ice Do Not Shake WILLIAM SEABROOK writes that if you follow instructions this cocktail will, "look like rosy dawn, taste like the milk of Paradise, and make you plenty crazy." The celebrated explorer, who has experienced various global libations, including in Port-au-Prince, and shared a toast under the stars with the White Monk of Timbuktu, laments that– "since I have become sober and God-fearing and can no longer get my pleasure kicking the gong around, my happiest diversions are tennis, the harmonica, the King James version of the Old Testament, talking to Negroes, and looking at beautiful women." Members of the So Red the Nose Club are advised to sample Asylum to understand the potential consequences for imprudent drinkers of Gin and Pernod.
Created by William Seabrook