Doctor Funk
Ingredients
- 2 1⁄3 oz Dark/black/blackstrap rum
- 1⁄6 oz La Fée Parisienne absinthe
- 1⁄3 oz Monin Grenadine Syrup
- 1⁄4 oz Sugar syrup 'rich'
- 1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
- 1⁄4 oz Lime juice
Method
Glass:
Photographed in an Urban Bar Gili Old Fashioned 30cl
Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a DOUBLE OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
Method:
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.
Garnish:
- Garnish with lime wedge.
- Serve with a straw.
Nutrition:
One serving of Doctor Funk contains 238 calories
History:
Created by Don Beach in the early 1950s at his Don The Beachcomber restaurant in Palm Springs. Beach was inspired by and adapted a medicinal absinthe-laced limeade, concocted and prescribed decades earlier by Doctor Bernard Funk, a German physician in Samoa.
Dr. Funk was the personal physician of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous author of Treasure Island, during his final years in Samoa. Stevenson, who suffered from lifelong bronchial issues, settled in Samoa in 1890 at an estate he named Vailima. The good doctor reportedly created a medicinal tonic for the ailing writer made with absinthe, lemon juice, lime juice, grenadine, and soda. The potion is described by Frederick O'Brien in his 1921 book Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
Dr. Funk arrived in Samoa in 1880 and left to return to Germany for medical treatment in 1911. He died on 8 April 1911, aged 66, in a Berlin hospital. According to his will, after his death, a block of granite was shipped from Germany to Samoa and erected on the shore of Lake Lanotoo. Inscribed, "Dr. Bernhard Funk" followed by the dates of his arrival and departure from Somoa, and his birth and death. [For more information, tikicentral.com]
Review:
With its generous dose of rum and absinthe, too many of these faintly liquorice-like cocktails and you'll need a doctor.
