It is impossible to find out who and when first came up with the idea of adding thick tomato juice to vodka and seasoning it with spices. Several bartenders and one actor are claiming the honor of becoming the father of Bloody Mary. Likewise, there is no way to know for sure who the famous drink is named after - Queen Mary I of England, a bit of a movie star Mary Pickford, or a pretty waitress from a Chicago bar. Only one thing has been documented - the first mention of this popular cocktail appeared in the gossip section of the New York Herald Tribune in 1939.
It is necessary
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- The classic Bloody Mary recipe is approved by the International Bartenders Association (IBA).
- 45 ml vodka
- 90 ml tomato juice
- 15 ml lemon juice
- 2 drops of Worcestershire sauce
- 2 drops Tabasco sauce
- sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- ice cubes
- 1 stalk of celery
Instructions
Step 1
The classic Bloody Mary recipe is approved by the International Bartenders Association (IBA).
Take a tall glass (highball). Pour six parts of thick tomato juice into it, one part of freshly squeezed lemon juice, drip a few drops of sauces. Add salt and pepper, gently pour in three parts of vodka and add crushed ice. Stir with a peeled stick of stalk celery and drink. If, instead of celery, the cocktail is garnished with two olives, then Mary will instantly turn into no less Bloody Charlie.
Step 2
If you replace vodka in Bloody Mary with another alcohol, you get a whole series of related cocktails. So, for example, the Bloody Fairy is the same cocktail with absinthe. Bloody Geisha or Bloody Ninja is obtained when the ingredients instead of ordinary vodka contain Japanese rice, sake. Do not confuse Bloody Mary with Bloody Mary, although the last cocktail is almost identical to the first, but Mexican tequila acts as an alcoholic component in it. Bloody Maureen and Bloody Molly Irish are made with the famous Guinness beer (Maureen) and fine Irish whiskey (Molly). If you replace Irish whiskey with Scotch, then there will be no trace of the girls in the name of the drink, because it will already be a stern Bloody Scotsman.
Step 3
If no alcohol is poured into Bloody Mary at all, then it will turn into a non-alcoholic cocktail Virgin Mary or Bloody Virgin. In England, such a drink is called Devil's Barbara, in honor of the Minister of Transport Barbara, who achieved stricter legislation in relation to drunk drivers and the introduction of a respiratory test for alcohol.
Step 4
But it is not only the alcoholic component that can be replaced. Tomato juice is what makes Bloody Mary so bloody. The company that produces the famous Campbell soup also owns the V8 brand under which vegetable juices are produced. When the company launched its first juice, 87% tomato, it insisted that the juice was perfect for the famous cocktail. The International Bartenders Association could not agree with this, but the V8 cocktail entered its register. Other manufacturers who tried to substitute their product for ordinary tomato juice, the Clamato brand. They make reconstituted tomato juice with spices and clam broth. This version of the cocktail was to the taste of Canadians and Bloody Caesar pressed Bloody Mary in a single country. The variation with pineapple juice is called White Commander, and with beef broth it is called the Bloody Bull.
