No Sunday Brunch is complete without Bloody Mary’s to compliment the meal. There must be as many Bloody Mary recipes as there are chili or barbecue ribs recipes and everybody feels theirs is the best. My recipe was passed down to me from the bartender at Blackstone Tavern in Boston. I altered it a little bit throughout the years. If you come to my house for Sunday Brunch here’s what you’ll be drinking. Makes approximately one gallon assuming I sample the masterpiece as I mix it.
Ingredients
Half gallon of V8 juice
Liter of vodka; no need to use expensive vodka. I usually use Smirnoff. *Prep the vodka 24-48 hours by cutting two habanero peppers in quarters and placing them in the bottle.
10 ounces of canned beef broth
10 ounces of pickle juice from sweet bread and butter pickles
One 8 oz jar of Huy Fong Chili Garlic hot sauce. *This sauce is very hot.
4 slices of bacon cooked crisp and crushed into crumbs
3 tablespoons of chili powder
2 tablespoons of black pepper
2 tablespoons of celery salt
In a 1 gallon milk or orange juice bottle, combine the V-8 juice, beef broth, pickle juice.
Spoon the Huy Fong Chili Garlic hot sauce in. Close the cap and shake until throughly mixed.
Spoon the chili powder, black pepper and celery salt in. Crunch the crisp bacon into the smallest crumbs possible and add to the mixture. Close the cap and shake throughly.
*MOST IMPORTANT STEP: Pour 6-8 ounces of the mixture in a glass over ice, add 3 ounces of the habanero infused vodka, stir throughly and drink. Of course this is only to make room in the gallon jug, it is not an excuse to have a cocktail at 7:00 am.
Add the remaining 31(ish) ounces of habanero infused vodka to the mixture, shake throughly and refrigerate 2-3 hours.
Optional garnishes: celery stalk, cocktail onions, garlic clove, dill pickle and cocktail shrimp.
When it is time to serve the Bloody Mary’s, shake the jug thoroughly before pouring each drink. Fill 16 ounce glasses about 3/4 with ice, pour the Bloody Mary over the ice and garnish to taste.
*Each one gallon batch will result in approximately 4-7 people leaving the Sunday Brunch in an intoxicated state. Be sure to provide plenty of food and a designated driver.
Gary McAdams, PA
Realtor, Notary Public
Barbara A. Anderson Realty
Serving Key West and the Florida Keys
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