Spirited Recipes from Hotel Monteleone

Celebrating its 125^th anniversary year, New Orleans’ Hotel Monteleone is toasting its resident spirits with themed cocktails named for the Hotel’s most popular, friendly ghosts, including Maurice, a young boy from the 19^th century; Red, a former engineer employed by the Hotel; Solemn John, a distraught businessman from Tennessee in the 1920s; and Poor Helen who thinks she’s still alive.

Red’s Rum

1 1/4 oz Old New Orleans 3-year-old Rum
4 oz fresh orange juice
1/2 oz pomegranate liquor

Place rum and orange juice in an ice filled cocktail glass. Roll in a Boston shaker to blend. Float the pomegranate liquor on top so that it creates tendrils of red floating through drink.

Maurice’s Madness

1 1/4 oz Citadelle Gin
1/4 oz Vieux Pontarlier Absinthe
4 oz Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix

Place all ingredients in an ice filled cocktail glass. Roll into a Boston shaker to mix. Garnish with a lime wedge and a green olive.

Solemn John

1 ¼ oz Crown Royal
1 oz Mathilde Pear Liquor
¼ oz simple syrup
3-4 oz half and half
Dash of cinnamon/p>

Place all ingredients in a Boston shaker and shake until well chilled and blended.Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a dusting of cinnamon.

Headless Helen

1 oz Ketel One Vodka
1 oz pomegranate liquor
5 oz champagne or sparkling wine

Place Ketel One and pomegranate liquor in a Boston shaker and shake until well chilled. Strain into a champagne flute and garnish with an orange slice.

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