75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)
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75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)
Serve in a Coupe glass
| 1 1⁄3 oz | Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack |
| 2⁄3 oz | Hayman's London Dry Gin |
| 1⁄6 oz | Monin Grenadine Syrup |
| 2 dash | La Fée Parisienne absinthe |
How to make:
- Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
- Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist (discarded) & star anise.
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Review:
Like the gun this cocktail is named after, this small cocktail packs a hell of a punch, and to ensure it does, MacElhone calls for a couple of dashes of absinthe in place of the lemon juice used in earlier Soixante-Quinze (Seventy-Five) recipes. The result is a dry, spirituous drink.
Variant:
Soixante-Quinze (1915 Washington Herald recipe) - with dry gin, applejack bonded, grenadine and lemon juice.
"75" Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe) - with dry gin, calvados, lemon juice and grenadine.
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.
History:
Adapted from a recipe in Harry MacElhone's's 1926 Harry ABC of Mixing Cocktails.
248. " 75 " Cocktail.
Harry MacElhone, 1926
1 teaspoon Grenadine, 2 dashes of Absinthe or Anis-del-Oso, 2/3 Calvados, 1/3 Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
(This cocktail was very popular in France during the war, and named after the French light field gin.)
See: French 75 history.
Nutrition:
One serving of 75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) contains 159 calories
Alcohol content:
- 1.3 standard drinks
- 27.64% alc./vol. (27.64° proof)
- 18.1 grams of pure alcohol
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I'm not quite sure what to do with my absinthe since it's firewater, but here it seems to pair with the Grenadine, while the (Berneroy XO) watches over things.
I used Bombay Star gin, so it's a punchy drink. I'm having mine before making tea.