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Spirited: Daddy's Bloody Marys

Source of Recipe

From "What Can I Bring" by Elizabeth Heiskell


Recipe Introduction

"All Southern girls think their daddies make the best Bloody Mary. I am no exception. When we were growing up, as soon as Daddy left the Baptist church on Sunday morning, he would head straight for the kitchen to make up this wonderful concoction."

List of Ingredients

• 4 cups vegetable juice
• ¾ cup fresh lime juice (from 7 limes)
• ¼ cup prepared horseradish
• 3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 1½ cups vodka
• 1 tsp celery salt
• Lime wedges
• Celery stalks
• Pickled okra spears
• Spicy pickled green beans


Recipe

Combine the vegetable juice, lime juice, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper in a pitcher. Stir in the vodka just before serving.

Sprinkle the celery salt on a small plate. Run a lime wedge around the rim of each glass; invert glasses onto celery salt so salt adheres to rim of glasses.

Fill each glass with ice and about 1 cup vegetable juice mixture. Garnish with the celery stalks, pickled okra spears, and spicy green beans.

Serves 6