75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)

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Serve in

a Coupe glass...
1⅓ fl oz Berneroy Fine Calvados
⅔ fl oz Rutte Dry Gin
⅙ fl oz Giffard Sirop Grenadine (Grenadine Syrup)
2 dash La Fée Parisienne Absinthe Superieure
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How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist (discarded) & star anise

Comment:

Like the gun this cocktail is named after, this small drink that 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.

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