It's an easy way to make a glass of Champagne feel even more festive.
, an amusing little cocktail book from 1927 in which the French 75 first appears. The weapon had been claimed as the namesake of otherrecipe is the one that stuck, and after it was reprinted in Harry Craddock’s famousit was as good as law: gin, lemon, sugar and Champagne. Craddock, ever laconic, added by way of etymology just four words: “Hits with remarkable precision.
Never mind that through random historical accident the most elegant and well-known sparkling wine cocktail of all time is named after a machined steel anti-personnel cannon from WWI. These things happen sometimes. The recipe has seen some tweaking in the last 90 or so years, and there are three versions worth talking about:
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