Monkey Gland

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Monkey Gland

The Monkey Gland ( english about for monkey gland ) is an alcoholic cocktail made of gin , orange juice , absinthe and grenadine and one of the short drinks . The drink is listed by the International Bartenders Association along with other well-known cocktails in the category The Unforgettables .

history

The cocktail was first prepared in Paris in the 1920s. Harry MacElhone, the founder of Harry's New York Bar in Paris, is considered the inventor of the Monkey Gland . Other sources also mention Frank Meier from the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

The name of the cocktail roughly means monkey gland , but also refers to the tissue of monkey testicles or the latter itself. The unusual name for a cocktail goes back to Serge Voronoff , a French surgeon. He first carried out testicular transplants in animals, removing the testicles from young animals and implanting these older animals. Voronoff allegedly observed increases in vitality as a result, which encouraged him to apply this method to humans. Since the 1920s and thus at the time when the Monkey Gland was created, he transplanted monkey testicles hundreds of times into the scrota of people who believed that the method would rejuvenate them. MacElhone confirmed the naming of the drink based on Voronoff's practices.

Preparation and variations

According to the International Bartenders Association , a preparation is made with

  • 5 cl gin
  • 3 cl orange juice
  • 2 drops of absinthe
  • 2 drops of grenadine

recommended. The ingredients are placed in a cocktail shaker , shaken on a lot of ice and then strained into a pre-chilled cocktail bowl .

In some recipes, a bar spoon (about 0.5 cl) is recommended as a unit of measure for the ingredients absinthe and grenadine . At the time when absinthe was not available in the USA, it was replaced by other aniseed drinks such as Pernod or Ricard . The herbal liqueur Bénédictine - which has no aniseed notes - was also partially flavored. The original variant is therefore also referred to as French , the others mentioned as American .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Beier, Marco: The Monkey Gland Cocktail . In: Mixology. Bar culture magazine of December 3, 2013. Last accessed on November 30, 2016.
  2. ^ S. Voronoff: The study of old age and my method of rejuvenation. The Gill publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1926
  3. ↑ International Bartenders Association: Monkey Gland . Last accessed on November 30, 2016.