Drink · 5 min · 1 flute
French 75
Gin, lemon and sugar lengthened with sparkling wine. It drinks like champagne and hits like a Tom Collins.
The sheet · 1 flute · 5 min
mediumWhy tonight. Gin, lemon and sugar lengthened with sparkling wine. It drinks like champagne and hits like a Tom Collins.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- gin
- lemon
- simple syrup
- prosecco
Method
- 1 oz gin, ½ oz lemon, ½ oz simple syrup shaken hard with ice and strained into a cold flute.
- Top with champagne or a dry prosecco, poured slowly down the side.
- Chill the wine and the glass properly. Warm wine into a cold sour foams straight over the rim.
- Named for a field gun, and the kick is meant to be the joke rather than the surprise.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- gin
- Botanicals over a neutral base, and every bottle draws its own map — juniper-forward gin makes a bracing drink, a softer modern one makes a floral one.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- simple syrup
- Sugar already dissolved, which is the only form of sugar that works in a cold drink.
- prosecco
- Bubbles and light fruit, and it is a top-up rather than a base — poured in early it goes flat before the drink is finished.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
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Gin fizz
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Bramble
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Cucumber Collins
A Collins that went through the garden. Slice, don't puree, unless you want soup.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.