75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄3 oz Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
- 2⁄3 oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
- 1⁄6 oz Monin Grenadine Syrup
- 2 dash La Fée Parisienne absinthe
Method
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.
Nutrition:
One serving of 75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) contains 159 calories
History:
Adapted from a recipe in Harry MacElhone's's 1926 Harry ABC of Mixing Cocktails.
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.
