Name: French 75 (Judge Jr's 1927 recipe)
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 3 Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) (or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon); 45 ml Gin; 90 ml Champagne Brut

Serve in a

Collins glass

Garnish:

Lemon slice

How to make:

STIR powdered sugar with lemon juice in base of shaker until sugar dissolves. Add gin, SHAKE with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with champagne and lightly stir.

1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
3 barspoon	Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) (or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon)
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3 fl oz	Brut champagne or sparkling wine
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Review:

Judge Jr's original 1927 recipe calls for "2 jiggers Gordon water; 1 part lemon juice; a spoonful of powdered sugar; cracked ice. Fill up the rest of a tall glass with champagne!" I've loosely interpreted this recipe to the one above (with the 3 spoons of powdered sugar being flat 5ml measuring spoons). The result is dangerously quaffable gin spiked champagne with a zesty lemon bite. The powered sugar adds an attractive sherbet note, but if you prefer to use sugar syrup then substitute with ½oz/15ml (2:1).

History:

Adapted from a recipe in the 1927 book Here's How by Judge Jr..

More information on the history and variants of the French 75 can be found on our page.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
14.34% alc./vol. (28.68° proof)
23.7 grams of pure alcohol

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