User talk:Jmillrod/Red Snapper Bloody Mary (cocktail)

Jmillrod (talk) 13:16, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

The Red Snapper is a a tomato-based cocktail containing gin. The Red Snapper contains many of the same ingredients as a Bloody Mary (cocktail), including tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, horseradish, celery, olive, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and celery salt.[

History
The cocktail had its beginnings in Harry's New York Bar in Paris, where it had a simple tomato juice base. But the Red Snapper did not become the modern-day version until Fernand Petiot began working at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis Hotel in New York City in 1934. There, Tabasco sauce was added, and Petiot christened the new cocktail the Red Snapper because of its color. A bar patron jokingly called the drink the Bloody Mary, and the name caught on. However, the St. Regis Hotel refused to change the name of the cocktail because Bloody Mary was not considered elegant enough for the hotel's high-class clientele.

Over time, the name Bloody Mary grew in popularity and vodka became the liquor of choice for the cocktail. However, some bartenders, including Gavin Fitzsimmons, lead bartender at the King Cole Bar in the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, still prefer to serve the gin-based Red Snapper, rather than the in lieu of the vodka-based Bloody Mary.

Ingredients

 * Ice
 * Measure London Dry Gin
 * Lemon Wedge or Juice
 * Splash Worcestershire Sauce
 * Tabasco Sauce
 * Salt
 * 150ml Tomato Juice
 * Celery stick
 * Black pepper

Preparation
Fill glass and Boston shaker with ice and then pour in gin. Squeeze in lemon juice into gin and ice and then add Worchestershire and Tabasco sauces. Add two pinches of salt and tomato juice. Shake and serve with celery stick and black pepper.