# Widow's Kiss

Calvados anchors equal small measures of Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine in a compact nineteenth-century digestif whose sweetness is checked by aromatic bitters.

Strength: 41% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 30 ml [Calvados](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/calvados.md)
- 15 ml [Yellow Chartreuse](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/yellow-chartreuse.md)
- 15 ml [Bénédictine](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/benedictine.md)
- 2 dashes [Angostura bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters.md)

## Glassware

Cocktail glass

## Method

1. Shake all ingredients with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled.
2. Fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

## Related drinks

- [Diki-Diki](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/diki-diki.md): Calvados leads Swedish Punsch and grapefruit in Robert Vermeire’s compact 1922 Embassy Club drink, joining orchard fruit to smoky cane spice.
- [Apple Cart](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/apple-cart.md): A Calvados Sidecar with crisp apple brandy, concentrated orange, and fresh lemon.
- [Angel Face](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/angel-face.md): An equal-parts blend of gin, apricot brandy, and apple-rich Calvados.
- [Monte Cassino](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-cassino.md): Damon Dyer’s equal-parts rye sour makes Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine full partners, joining grain, herbs, honeyed spice, and lemon.
- [Corpse Reviver No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/corpse-reviver-no-1.md): Cognac, Calvados, and sweet vermouth make a dark, spirit-forward member of the loosely named Corpse Reviver family, entirely unlike the bright gin-and-citrus No. 2.
- [Diamondback](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/diamondback.md): High-proof rye, bonded apple brandy, and Yellow Chartreuse make a dry, formidable three-spirit drink whose fruit and herbs emerge only after deliberate dilution.
- [Conference](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/conference.md): A four-spirit Old Fashioned uniting rye, bourbon, Cognac, and Calvados with demerara and bitters.
- [Monte Carlo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-carlo.md): Rye, Bénédictine, and Angostura make an Old Fashioned branch in which the liqueur supplies every trace of sweetness as well as a deep herbal finish.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/widows-kiss
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/widows-kiss-1986b241.webp
- Recipe source: https://archive.org/details/modernamericandr00kapp/page/n114/mode/2up