TIME FOR A TIPPLE: FANCY-IT-UP FRENCH 75s -

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Champagne bottle exploding like a party fireworks show

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.

Champagne in a glass with a string of fairy lights

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

a blue ship's door with the sign "F.K. BELLE 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.