TIME FOR A TIPPLE: FANCY-IT-UP FRENCH 75s
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Time for a Tipple
While the Quartermaster’s rum is not to be sniffed at (literally, you’ll get a headache from a single whiff) nothing beats a little sparkle at a party. This one might be my all-time favourite cocktail, and has been my celebratory tipple of choice since I was young enough to be tipping it back illegally. What can I tell you? The classics never go out of style.
Fancy-It-Up French 75s
Recipe* (Serves 1)
- Chilled Champagne, Prosecco or my personal preference, Spanish Cava
- 25ml chilled gin
- Sugar syrup
- Generous squeeze of lemon juice
Method
- Mix the sugar syrup, gin and lemon juice in the bottom of a champers flute/coupe using a teaspoon
- Top up the glass with your favourite fizz
- Sip enthusiastically while dancing on the table, and remember the immortal words of Dom Perignon upon inventing champagne: “I am tasting the stars!”
Variations
*For a non-alcoholic version, replace the gin with tonic water and the champagne with sparkling pear juice.
ABOUT F.K. MARLOWE
F.K. Marlowe is a Shropshire lass who lived in London and Beijing before settling down with her husband, three daughters and rescue pup in Vancouver. She writes horror stories with a tendency to the paranormal, and Young Adult fiction with fangs and sass.
Marlowe doesn’t worry overly much about the placement of semi-colons and the like, having spent far too long pootling about in academia to take them seriously. (She has an Oxford first in English Lit, plus a Master’s and PhD from Leeds). She has, however, discovered that life is the best education for a writer, and plans to continue her studies there as long as possible.
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