New Orleans Sazerac Cocktail

Ingredients

This is cocktail made famous at the Sazerac coffee house in New Orleans.

Directions:

• Chill and old fashioned glass by filling it with ice and letting it sit for several minutes.
• In a separate mixing glass. muddle the simple syrup and Peychaud bitters together.
• Add the rye whiskey and ice to the bitters mixture and stir.
• Discard the ice in the chilled glass and rinse it with absinthe by pouring a small amount into the glass, swirling it around and discarding the liquid.
• Strain the whiskey mixture from the mixing glass into the old fashioned glass.
• Garnish with a lemon twist.
• Recipe may be doubled.