Named for a field piece, what is the name of the cocktail consisting of gin, champagne, lemon juice, and sugar?
French 75 (cocktail) form and "French 75" name in "Here’s How", by Judge Jr. (1927), consisting of gin, sugar, lemon juice, and champagne. This recipe was republished with the name French 75 in "The Savoy Cocktail Book" (1930), which helped popularize the drink. Some later cocktail books use Cognac instead of gin, such as "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks" by David A. Embury. The French 75 was popularized in America at the Stork Club in New York. It appears in the movie "Casablanca" (1942) and is referenced twice in the John Wayne films "A Man Betrayed" (1941) and "Jet Pilot" (1957). In
Between the Sheets (cocktail) alternate name for the Between the Sheets, and as a different drink using gin instead of rum and cognac, and adding orange juice to the lemon juice. Between the Sheets (cocktail) The Between the Sheets is a cocktail consisting of white rum, cognac, triple sec, and lemon juice. The origin of the cocktail is usually credited to Harry MacElhone at Harry's New York Bar in Paris in the 1930s as a derivative of the sidecar. However, competing theories exist that claim the cocktail was created at The Berkeley in approximately 1921, or in French brothels as an apéritif for consumption