Garnish:
Lemon zest twist (discarded) & star anise
How to make:
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.
1 1/3 fl oz | Calvados & straight applejacks |
2/3 fl oz | Hayman's London Dry Gin |
1/6 fl oz | Grenadine/pomegranate syrup (2:1) |
2 dash | La Fée Parisienne absinthe |
Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

Review:
Like the gun this cocktail is named after, this small drink 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 being a dry spirituous drink.
Variant:
Adapted from a recipe in Harry MacElhone's 1926 book Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails.
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.)
Nutrition:
One serving of 75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) contains 173 calories.
Alcohol content:
- 1.4 standard drinks
- 30.31% alc./vol. (60.62° proof)
- 19.9 grams of pure alcohol
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