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75 Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe)

Name: 75 Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Gin; 20 ml Calvados apple brandy; 5 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (20)

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of 75 Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe) contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
24.83% alc./vol. (49.67° proof)
19.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe by Henry Tépé of Henry's Bar in Paris, France, originally published in Robert Vermeire's 1922 book Cocktails - How to Mix Them.

"75" Cocktail
Fill the shaker half full of broken ice and add:
2 dashes of Grenadine.
1 teaspoonful of Lemon Juice.
1/6 gill of Calvados.
2/6 gill of Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into a cocktail-glass.
This cocktail was very well appreciated in Paris during the war. It has been called after the famous light French field gun, and was introduced by Henry of Henry's bar fame in Paris.
Robert Vermeire, 1922

See: French 75 history.

Review

Spirituous, dry and fruity, the botanicals in the gin add depth of flavour to the other fruity ingredients.

Variations/similar cocktails

Soixante-Quinze (1915 Washington Herald recipe) - with dry gin, applejack bonded, grenadine and lemon juice.
"75" Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) - with calvados, dry gin, grenadine and absinthe.
French 75 (Judge Jr's 1927 recipe) - with lemon juice, powdered sugar, dry gin and champagne.
French 75 (late 1980s/90s incarnation) - with lemon juice, powdered sugar, dry gin and champagne.
French 75 (Difford's recipe) - served in a gun cartridge-like Colins glass, this combines Robert Vermeire's 1922 recipe with the cognac and champagne now synonymous with the French 75.

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Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 3y

Delicious! The Calvados didn’t come through very strongly, but a very refreshing cocktail.

Sherri Rita 5y

Definitely be careful unless you really like citrus I think I overdid the lime (instead of lemon). In any event did not find sweet, more dry/sour. So add more pomegranate or other similar sweetener if you are looking for that dimension.

Geoff Wild 5y

Very sweet