{"id":468,"date":"2026-02-15T11:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/?p=468"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:44:07","slug":"a-powerful-punch-soixante-quinze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Punch: Soixante Quinze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring is arriving, and so will the legions, yes 3,000+ of tulips and 3,000+ of daffodils, of bulbs I planted may be blooming.\u00a0 A perfect time for a Tea.\u00a0 And what to serve?\u00a0 A powerful punch: Soixante Quinze<\/em>, also known at the “French 75” purportedly created in Harry’s Bar in Paris in 1915 after the French cannons – The drink was said to have such a strong “kick” that it felt like being shelled by the French 75mm gun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingredients: gin, champagne, simple syrup, and fresh lemon juice.\u00a0 We modify the recipe by having an iceberg of homemade lemon sherbet floating in the punch bowl creating an ominous titanic appearance.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps a little model replica of the cannon should be in front of the punch bowl with a placard: Avertissement <\/em>and perhaps only offered to guests who traveled on their own two feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is arriving, and so will the legions, yes 3,000+ of tulips and 3,000+ of daffodils, of bulbs I planted may be blooming.\u00a0 A perfect time for a Tea.\u00a0 And what to serve?\u00a0 A powerful punch: Soixante Quinze, also known at the “French 75” purportedly created in Harry’s Bar in Paris in 1915 after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13,47,1],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-court-chemeketa-residential-historic-district","category-culture","category-uncategorized","tag-entertaining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salemdata.net\/johnpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}