Currently, one of the most popular alcoholic cocktails is the cocktail "Bloody Mary", the main components of which are vodka and tomato juice, sometimes with some additives (lemon juice, hot red pepper and other spices, Worcester sauce or Tabasco sauce ). There are many references to the cocktail "Bloody Mary" and the cultural allusions associated with this drink, in movies and literature.
History of the legendary drink
In itself, the phrase Bloody Mary "Bloody Mary" is associated in the Anglo-British culture with the name of one of the queens (namely, Mary I Tudor 1553-1558 gg.), Distinguished by special intolerance towards dissenting Anglicans.
The question of the primary invention of the recipe for the cocktail "Bloody Mary" is not unambiguously resolved.
The New York Herald Tribune, dated December 2, 1939, refers to the drink of George Jessel, made from vodka and tomato juice. Initially, this drink is positioned as an antipode agent. The time of invention of a cocktail is determined by the period between world wars.
In 1964, a certain Fernand Petito, who moved to the United States from France, in an interview with the correspondents of The New Yorker magazine claims that he was preparing and serving a vodka-tomato drink prepared according to his own recipe for vodka and tomato juice with additives, back in the 20's , working as a bartender in a Parisian institution.
In the variant of the cocktail preparation recipe from Fernanda Petio, salt, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, Worcesters sauce and crushed ice are used. According to one of the versions, first the drink of Fernanda Petio was called "Red Snapper", but the customers began to call the cocktail "Bloody Mary".
Anyway, today we can talk about two main versions of the cocktail "Bloody Mary" (simplified and more complex), of course, the Petio variant is more interesting, although the simplistic one is not bad.
How is the Bloody Mary cocktail made?
First, pour the tomato juice into the glass (pure or with additives), and then in a special way with a knife (along the blade), pour the vodka in such a way that the layers do not mix. At the use of "Bloody Mary" in one case, first drink vodka, and immediately after it - tomato juice.
There are also other variants of regional-national names of a vodka-tomato drink (for example, the Polish name "Krvava Manka").
We will tell you how to prepare a cocktail "Bloody Mary" at home with the maximum compliance with the official basic recipe.
Ingredients:
- vodka with a neutral taste - 45-50 ml;
- tomato juice - 90 ml;
- lemon juice - 15 ml;
- hot sauce (Worcestersky and / or Tabasco) - 2-3 drops;
- salt - a pinch;
- crushed ice -1-2 cube;
- black and red pepper ground;
- stalk of celery with leaves - for decoration.
Preparation
We put ice in a glass of highball type. Mix in a separate container of tomato juice, lemon juice, hot sauce, salt and pepper. Fill the highball on top of the ice. For lack of a Worcester sauce or Tabasco, you can make a cocktail "Bloody Mary" and without these components, so
Gently pour the vodka into the glass on the blade of the knife. We make a stalk of celery. Sometimes in the design they use lemon slices, shrimps, olives. In any case, the cocktail "Bloody Mary" is good to serve olives, shrimp, pickled or salted mushrooms , salami cheese.
There are other recipes for cocktails of this type with tomato juice. They use various alcoholic drinks instead of vodka: gin, whiskey, bourbon, sake, tequila and even sherry. Non-alcoholic versions are also known.