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May 25, 2007

Ultimate Bloody Mary

A lifetime of turning to a proper Bloody Mary once the sun has gone over the yard arm has evolved a Bloody Mary recipe as follows:

Materials & Ingredients:

Highball glass - 6 inches or more high
Ice - 3 lumps minimum
Vodka - any brand as long as at least 37.5 percent proof (UK)
Tomato juice - best is handmade or Big Tom
Tabasco sauce
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
Fresh squeezed lemon
Milled pepper
Milled rock salt
Swizzle stick or stick of fresh celery or (clean) index finger

Method:

Drop ice into glass
Top up with vodka to quarter of glass depth
Fill up to just below top of glass with tomato juice (shake it up first)
Squeeze in ¼ to ½ of the lemon
Add 3-4 drops Tabasco and repeat
Add a few slurps Worcestershire sauce
Add some ground rock salt - not too much not too little
Add some ground fresh pepper
Stir with skewer/swizzle stick/celery stick/finger
Taste and adjust for impact/heat

Notes:

Use ice even if all or any other main ingredients are frozen.
Lemon and salt are fundamental (garlic salt can also be used, but easy with it).
Measures given are for serious alcoholics with depraved senses of taste and smell - reduce according to (lack of) experience.
Celery is a somewhat distracting embellishment, inappropriate for hard drinkers but appealing to vegetarians. Stick or finger is better.
Enjoy it with all necessary caution. Change to something else after 2/3 glasses.

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