The Chrysanthemum is a cocktail made with

absinthe Absinthe (, ) is an anise-flavored Liquor, spirit derived from several plants, including the flowers and leaves of ''Artemisia absinthium'' ("grand wormwood"), together with green anise, sweet fennel, and other medicinal and culinary herbs. His ...

Bénédictine Bénédictine () is a herbal liqueur produced in France. It was developed by wine merchant Alexandre Le Grand in the 19th century and is flavored with twenty-seven flowers, berries, herbs, roots, and spices. A drier version, B&B, blending B� ...

, and

vermouth Vermouth (, ) is an Italian aromatized wine, aromatized, fortified wine, flavored with various Botany, botanicals (roots, Bark (botany), barks, flowers, seeds, Herb, herbs, and Spice, spices) and sometimes Food coloring, colored. The modern ve ...

. This pre-

prohibition Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic b ...

cocktail is sometimes credited to the 1930 edition of ''The Savoy Cocktail Book'', although an earlier recipe appears in the influential early 20th-century cocktail book ''Recipes for Mixed Drinks'' (1916) by Hugo R. Ensslin. Ensslin's original recipe called for equal parts of dry vermouth and Bénédictine, while most modern adaptations follow Harry Craddock's recipe, which uses a 2:1 ratio of vermouth to Bénédictine to prevent the sweetness of the latter from overwhelming the drink. Some recipes add lemon juice. In ''Jack's Manual on the Vintage and Production, Care and Handling of Wines, Liquors, etc.,'' from 1933, the historic recipe is made with

anisette Anisette, or Anis, is an anise-flavored liqueur that is consumed in most Mediterranean countries. It is colorless and, because it contains sugar, is sweeter than dry anise flavoured spirits (e.g. absinthe). The most traditional style of anisette ...

, instead of absinthe.

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