# Absinthe Suissesse

Absinthe turned plush and pale with cooling mint, almond, cream, orange blossom, and a dense egg-white foam.

Strength: 23% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Absinthe](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/absinthe.md)
- 15 ml [White crème de menthe](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/white-creme-de-menthe.md)
- 15 ml [Orgeat syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/orgeat-syrup.md)
- 30 ml [Cream](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cream.md) — Use heavy cream.
- 30 ml [Egg white](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/egg-white.md) — Use pasteurised egg white if preferred.
- 1 dash [Orange flower water](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/orange-flower-water.md)

## Glassware

Highball glass

## Method

1. Add all the ingredients to a shaker and dry-shake vigorously without ice.
2. Add cubed ice and shake again until thoroughly chilled and aerated.
3. Fine-strain into a chilled highball glass without ice.

## Related drinks

- [Green Fairy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/green-fairy.md): Absinthe leads lemon, rich syrup, aromatic bitters, and egg white in Dick Bradsell’s poised, foaming 1990s London sour.
- [Ramos Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ramos-fizz.md): An airy gin fizz enriched with cream, citrus, egg white, and floral notes.
- [Pisco Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/pisco-sour.md): An aromatic grape-spirit sour balancing lemon and sugar beneath a silky egg-white foam seasoned with bitters.
- [Trinidad Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/trinidad-fizz.md): Angostura bitters lead a creamy, foaming historical fizz brightened with lemon, grenadine, and cold soda.
- [Amaro Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/amaro-sour.md): Averna takes the lead over a small bourbon spine in Brad Thomas Parsons’s plush, egg-white sour, balancing dark citrus and caramel with fresh lemon.
- [Absinthe Frappé](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-frappe.md): A bracing New Orleans cooler that softens absinthe’s anise and herbs with mint, sugar, soda, and crushed ice.
- [Saturn](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/saturn.md): A rare gin-led tiki classic, vivid with passion fruit and lemon and rounded by small measures of falernum and almond-rich orgeat.
- [Parisian Dispatch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/parisian-dispatch.md): Sother Teague turns blanc vermouth, absinthe, orgeat, and soda into a pale, mint-crowned highball that is long, aromatic, and genuinely low proof.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/absinthe-suissesse
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/absinthe-suissesse-cf9b6cc0.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.liquor.com/absinthe-suissesse-cocktail-recipe-5212145