3/4 oz Sagamore Rye
3/4 oz La Clandestine Absinthe
3/4 oz Crème de Cassis
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
Shake everything with ice and strain into a chilled Coupe Glass
“It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man; and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker’s perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.” ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
I started by looking up various other cocktails that use this Blackcurrant Liqueur, but nothing really jumped out at me with a statement that this is what Charles Dexter Ward, or perhaps Joseph Curwen, would drink. Then I sought something I could use in that name as I am a fan of naming conventions. I quickly recalled a drink called the Final Ward which is Phil Ward’s (of Death and Co.) spin on the classic Last Word cocktail that swaps out Rye for the Gin in the original. I had my base.
