# Help me find a lemon drop recipe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014 "2006-11-28T01:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/1 "2006-11-28T01:04:22Z")
I forgot where I saw it, but it involved champagne/sparkling wine and fresh lemons. Anyone else see it-- or just have a good recipe (everything I Google seems to be the standard vodka/sours mix combo)? ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/2 "2006-11-28T06:37:43Z")
A lemon drop doesn’t have champagne in it. Are you maybe thinking of a French 75? 2 oz gin 1 oz fresh lemon juice A sugarcube’s worth of simple syrup Shake & strain into a champagne flute. Fill with champage. Twist of lemon. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/3 "2006-11-28T08:29:12Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] I forgot where I saw it, but it involved champagne/sparkling wine and fresh lemons. Anyone else see it-- or just have a good recipe (everything I Google seems to be the standard vodka/sours mix combo)? [/QUOTE] I can’t check at the moment, but might you have seen it in this month’s **Living** (Martha Stewart)? I think I remember seeing a similar recipe in there. I love a really good vodka lemon drop “martini”, but they are seldom really good. Mostly, they taste like lighter fluid and I wake up with a splitting headache. The champagne version might be nice. If it turns out the recipe’s in there, I’ll post it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/4 "2006-11-28T15:49:38Z")
[QUOTE=jellyblue] I can’t check at the moment, but might you have seen it in this month’s **Living** (Martha Stewart)? I think I remember seeing a similar recipe in there. I love a really good vodka lemon drop “martini”, but they are seldom really good. Mostly, they taste like lighter fluid and I wake up with a splitting headache. The champagne version might be nice. If it turns out the recipe’s in there, I’ll post it for you. [/QUOTE] Very possible. I was looking at… a friend’s copy. Will check! ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/5 "2006-11-28T18:10:14Z")
[Here’s the recipe from her website.](http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=recipe2470&contentGroup=MSL&site=living&rsc=ns2006_r1) Might it be the same? ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/6 "2006-11-29T03:58:01Z")
It wasn’t in this month’s Martha Stewart. Crap. Maybe it was last month…or one of the other 15 similar magazines I get… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/7 "2006-11-29T04:29:39Z")
Here’s a Lemon Drop Champagne [recipe](http://www.recipezaar.com/173642) that sounds like what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/8 "2006-11-29T04:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=kittenblue] Here’s a Lemon Drop Champagne [recipe](http://www.recipezaar.com/173642) that sounds like what you’re talking about. [/QUOTE] That sounds like the one I remember…was I watching Sandra Lee? ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-lemon-drop-recipe/382014/9 "2006-11-29T04:37:06Z")
This Lemon Mimosa recipe uses fresh lemon juice: Lemon Mimosa Drop 1/2 oz. sugar syrup and the juice of one whole lemon into a white wine glass. Drop in half the lemon and top with 4 oz. champagne