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75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)

Name: 75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Calvados apple brandy; 20 ml Gin; 5 ml Grenadine syrup; 2 dash Absinthe

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
²⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method

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.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of 75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
27.64% alc./vol. (55.29° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry MacElhone's's 1926 Harry ABC of Mixing Cocktails.

248. " 75 " Cocktail.
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.)
Harry MacElhone, 1926

See: French 75 history.

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.

Variations/similar cocktails

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.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 37 cocktails
$33.99 $0.92 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$14.99 $0.10 per cocktail Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) image

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 320 cocktails
$17.99 $0.06 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

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Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Spirited. Like the absinthe and may consider a little more next time. Good herbal mixtures of flavours with just the right amount of sweetness.

Tony Jones 4y

Superb!
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.

Felicia Premium Member 4y

Absinthe rinse - works like a dream!

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