Tom Collins Champagne Substitute Food

This Tom Collins recipe is the best! Tom Collins cocktails are made with gin, lemon, club soda and simple syrup. They're delightfully fizzy, delicious and refreshing. Recipe yields 1 cocktail, so multiply as needed (you can mix several at once in a cocktail shaker).

Provided by Cookie and Kate

Categories     Cocktail

Time 10m

Number Of Ingredients 9

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 drink with 1 cherry, Calories 167 calories, Sugar 9.3 g, Sodium 1 mg, Fat 0.1 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, TransFat 0 g, Carbohydrate 10.7 g, Fiber 0.2 g, Protein 0.1 g, Cholesterol 0 mg

This drink dates back to the mid-nineteenth century and it is disputed whether it originated in England, America, or Australia. It was originally made with Old Tom, a sweetened gin. The modern version is made with dry gin. A French 75 is a Collins made with cognac and champagne.

Provided by ratherbeswimmin

Categories     Beverages

Time 5m

Yield 1 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 168.6, Fat 0.1, Sodium 1.6, Carbohydrate 5.2, Fiber 0.3, Sugar 3.4, Protein 0.2

The Tom Collins is perhaps the ultimate highball and one of history's most enduring cocktails. It was historically made with Old Tom gin, which is sweeter than London dry gin, but the drink works well with both types of the spirit. (Old Tom only recently became available again, thanks to the clamoring of mixologists.) A peculiar methodology is used in mixing up a Tom Collins. Though it contains fresh juice, which usually dictates that the drink must be shaken, it is nonetheless often built in the glass in which it is served. But shaking the drink and then straining it into an ice-filled highball works as well, and arguably leads to a better integrated cocktail.

Provided by Robert Simonson

Categories     cocktails

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients