Bloody Mary: Ted Haigh

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Bloody Mary

Makes 1

Ingredients
Cocktail:
2.0-oz (1/2 gill, 6 cl) Vodka
6.0-oz (1.5 gill, 18 cl) tomato juice or V-8
2 dashes (0.50 tsp) Worcestershire sauce
1 dash (0.25 tsp) Tabasco Sauce

Garnish:
Celery Salt
Celery stalk

Tools:
Bar spoon
Highball glass

Preparation

Stir all cocktail ingredients together in iced highball glass. Sprinkle celery salt on top; garnish with celery stalk and serve.

Source:  Ted Haigh, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: From the Alamagoozlum Cocktail to the Zombie (Gloucester: Quarry Books, an imprint of Rockport Publishers, Inc, 2004), 132.


Variation(s):
Bloody Bishop — Replace vodka with sherry.
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Bloody Eight or Eight Ball — Replace tomato juice with V8 juice.
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Bloody LeRoy — Replace tomato juice with barbecue sauce.
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Bloody Snowball — Replace vodka with bourbon.
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Classic, Updated — Combine ingredients and mix well; pour over ice in a tall glass. Garnish with a celery stalk.
2/3 cup top-quality tomato juice
2.0- to 3.0-oz top-shelf vodka
1 tsp prepared horseradish
6 shakes Tabasco Sauce
1 tsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
Juice of 1/2 large lime (or medium lemon)
1/8 tsp sea salt
1/8 tsp freshly-ground black pepper
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Highland Mary or Bloody Scotsman — Combine all ingredients; mix well. Pour over ice in a tall glass. Garnish with 1 fresh rosemary sprig, crushed.
2.0-oz (4 Tbsp) top-quality tomato juice
1.5-oz (3 Tbsp) Scotch whiskey
6 shakes Tabasco Sauce
1 tsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
1/8 tsp freshly-ground black pepper
1 tsp grated onion
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Pete Petiot — Shake with ice and strain into a short glass.
2.0-oz (4 Tbsp) vodka
2.0-oz (4 Tbsp) tomato juice
0.25-oz (2 tsp) fresh lemon juice
2 to 4 dashes (0.5 to 1.0 tsp) salt
2 dashes (0.5 tsp) cayenne pepper
2 dashes (0.5 tsp) fresh black pepper
3 dashes (0.75 tsp) Worcestershire sauce
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Russian Mary — Combine all ingredients; mix well and pour over ice in a tall glass. Garnish with a parsley sprig.
2-oz (4 Tbsp) top-quality tomato juice
2.0-oz (4 Tbsp) top-shelf vodka
2 Tbsp plain yogurt (regular or nonfat)
6 shakes Tabasco Sauce
1 tsp Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
1/8 tsp freshly-ground black pepper
1 tsp grated onion
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