Garnish:
Lemon zest twist
How to make:
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.
2/3 fl oz | Hayman's London Dry Gin |
2/3 fl oz | Applejack brandy bottled-in-bond (50% alc./vol) |
1/3 fl oz | Grenadine/pomegranate syrup (2:1) |
1/6 fl oz | Lemon juice (freshly squeezed) |
1/2 fl oz | Chilled water |
Review:
This 1915 recipe, originally of equal parts gin, applejack and grenadine (1/3 of each to 1/6 lemon juice) makes this Soixante-Quinze (Seventy-Five) a tad on the sweet side (certainly sweet if you are using a proprietary or housemade 2:1 grenadine). However, who knows what brix the original grenadine/pomegranate syrup was, so we've eased back the grenadine to bring modern-day ingredients more into kilter. The resulting drink (which benefits from a splash of water to aid dilution) remains more a fruity, spirituous after-dinner cocktail rather than an aperitif.
Variant:
"75" Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe) - with dry gin, calvados, lemon juice and grenadine.
"75" Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) - with calvados, dry gin, grenadine and absinthe.
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 1915 recipe published in The Washington Herald.
See: French 75 history.
Alcohol content:
- 1.1 standard drinks
- 21.01% alc./vol. (42.02° proof)
- 14.7 grams of pure alcohol
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