French 75
Gin, lemon, and syrup shaken and topped with Champagne. A strong drink in sparkling attire.
- Glass
- Champagne flute
- Method
- Shaken
- Served
- Up, no ice
- Garnish
- Lemon peel and one Luxardo cherry
Ingredients
1 drink, as written.
- 1½ oz ginBeefeater works, but some think a less juniper-forward gin works better
- ½ oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ oz simple syrupHoney syrup is the recommended swap
- Champagne, to topThinking Moët & Chandon Nectar Impérial
- Lemon peel and one Luxardo cherry
In a Champagne flute
In a 28 oz shaker
A half gallon
Batch amounts are the mix before ice. Shake or stir each round with ice, or pour it over ice. A half gallon is the max-fill line on a Ninja SLUSHi.
Method
- Shake the gin, lemon juice, and syrup with ice.
- Strain into a Champagne flute.
- Top with Champagne and garnish with the lemon peel and the cherry.
From my notes
- A strong drink in sparkling attire, invented by French biplane pilots and named after the French 75 mm howitzers used in World War I.
- The classic recipe from New Orleans uses cognac instead of gin.
- Other sweeteners: simple syrup made with honey (recommended), ½ oz St-Germain, or maple syrup, which doesn’t taste like maple but adds a nice, mysterious note.
Variations
The party batch
Quadruple the recipe, with St-Germain in place of the syrup. Shake hard with ice, then fill each flute halfway with the gin mixture and halfway with Champagne.
- 6 oz gin
- 2 oz lemon juice
- 2 oz St-Germain
- Champagne, to fill each flute halfway
