Churchill's Breakfast
Light a cinnamon stick & allow smoke to fill a chilled coupe; extinguish.
Shake ingredients with ice, strain to the coupe. Garnish with the cinnamon stick "cigar".
- Needs less syrup. Seems amenable to additions -- cherry heering, triple sec, benedictine, etc.
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- Left Hand of Darkness — Rye, Walnut Liqueur, Averna, Bitters, Absinthe, Brandied cherry
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Up bitters and reduce syrup; it overpowers the drink. Good but not quite perfect -- a solid base to tinker from.