Basically, this is a Martini made intriguing by a splash of absinthe. If this ends up being your deathbed drink, you didn’t do too badly.

Ingredients

　　¼ ounce dry vermouth

　　¼ ounce absinthe

　　Combine all the ingredients except the lemon twist in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe. Express a lemon twist over the drink and drop into the glass.

　　Excerpted from 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon © 2017 by Robert Simonson. Photography © 2017 by Colin Price. Reproduced by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.Buy the full book from Amazon.