Red Snapper
The gin-based predecessor to the Bloody Mary with savory tomato flavors.
- 2 ozlondon dry gin
- 4 oztomato juice
- ½ ozfresh lemon juice
- 2 dashworcestershire sauce
- 2 dashhot sauce
- 1 pinchcelery salt and black pepper
- celery stalk and lemon wedgegarnish
- 1Fill a highball glass with ice.
- 2Add gin and tomato juice.
- 3Add lemon juice and worcestershire sauce and hot sauce.
- 4Season with celery salt and black pepper.
- 5Stir well to combine.
- 6Garnish with a celery stalk and lemon wedge.
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The Red Snapper is a gin-based variation of the Bloody Mary, created when Fernand Petiot brought his tomato cocktail from Paris to the St. Regis Hotel in New York in 1934. With vodka scarce in America at the time, gin was substituted, and the refined Astor family renamed it 'Red Snapper' finding 'Bloody Mary' too vulgar for their clientele.
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