welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark
we're going to continue our exploration
of old cocktail books significant
cocktail books and this one today that
we're doing is
floridita this was published in 1939 in
havana cuba
it is another cocktail manual that is
tied to a very famous
bar and this bar floridita or la florida
is significant because it was a hangout
of ernest hemingway
and it is also credited as the
birthplace of the daiquiri
now to be sure there's a bunch of
daiquiri recipes in here
and not only are the daiquiri recipes in
here but they are referenced by other
cocktail writers like trader vic
who point to the to the daiquiri recipes
in this book as being significant
there's two other recipes in here that i
want to do though first before i get to
the daiquiris and
i think these are significant recipes
this cocktail book from 1939 is the
oldest cocktail book that i own
that has a tequila recipe in it and
we're going to get to that in a couple
of weeks
the one we're going to focus on today is
called the mary rose and as i looked at
this cocktail
the mary rose i realized
it's a bloody mary so i started to do a
little bit of research
on the bloody mary and this book just
not gonna stay open in the right spot
it'll be okay so i started doing
research on the bloody mary
first off in this time period 1939 in
cocktail books published in canada the
united states and the caribbean
you don't see a lot of vodka recipes you
don't see a lot of vodka recipes
at all in fact this is the first sort of
i'm going to say north american even
though it's not north america this is
the first north american cocktail book
where i see a vodka recipe you certainly
see them in some of the european books
like this one from 1930 the savoy
cocktail book
so as i'm researching
the bloody mary it comes to my attention
that
this cocktail doesn't get mentioned in
any of the places where you would expect
to see it mentioned so a little bit
about the bloody mary
someone claims to have invented it in
1920 or 1921
in a bar in paris which is why i would
think that it would show up in the savoy
cocktail book
but it doesn't it appears that
the bloody mary doesn't actually show up
in written form a cocktail called bloody
mary until 1946
and that 1946 recipe is essentially the
same as this 1939 recipe
but it's called bloody mary and this
1947 traders
trader vic cocktail book does have a
bloody mary cocktail in it
but trader vic's version is really
simple it's just tomato juice and vodka
there's nothing else in it there's no
other accoutrement now there is a
cocktail from 1941
which is tomato juice and vodka and it's
called the red
snapper now i had always been told that
a red snapper
was a bloody mary made with gin but in
the case of this 1941 recipe
it is definitely made with vodka so who
knows how that fits in
the thing that i did find though is i
didn't find
this recipe mentioned in any of the
research nobody
said there's a recipe
from 1939 cuba called
the mary rose that is essentially a
bloody mary
and i'm kind of confused as to how a lot
of the cocktail writers out there have
missed it
am i missing something nobody mentions
this cocktail and so
if the first bloody mary recipe is
printed in 1946
surely a recipe from 1939 with exactly
the same ingredients
called the mary must mean something
so the idea is we're supposed to ice the
tin and
shake this
so the next thing is how to serve this
i'm going to use these coops
the english recipe says to put it into
an appropriate glass
whatever that means the spanish recipe
says to put it into a cup special
i think these are pretty special i kind
of like them much more special than
a straight sided or the one that you
would get a bloody mary in today
so let's see how this works out can i
get it split
equitably between the two cups
there you go the merry rose the mary
rose hello friends hey glenn
so i see why maybe is it called rose
because it's got tomato in it and it's
kind of real red rose
well is there someone named mary rose
i'm gonna say i'm gonna go
way out on a limb way out on a limb and
people are gonna call me on this and you
can go right ahead
i'm gonna say this is the very first
bloody mary cocktail in a cocktail book
oh
so mary rose was once a pleasant and
then became bloody mary instead of
yes i'm gonna i'm gonna say that because
go crazy glenn go crazy you should hear
first folks to this point there doesn't
seem to be another
vodka lemon worcester sauce tomato juice
concoction
written down in a cocktail book with the
name mary attached
okay ah so specifically
you're saying that this is the first one
called mary or this
i'm gonna say this is the first yeah
this is the first one called mary okay
um
there were tomato cocktails before this
that show up in the 1800s books
which are exactly the same without any
alcohol in them
okay so and those were just called
tomato cocktail
let's give it a go i know how it's gonna
taste i think
yeah so to me
because my bias is missing two things
okay go ahead
celery flavor celery flavor and the uh
hot sauce
yeah well and the canadian in me says
maybe a little clam juice
clam juice definitely juice yes totally
biased there definitely clam juice with
a rim of hot salt
yeah celery flavor and hot sauce would
certainly ramp it up
but even into the 1940s this is from
1947 and trader vic
his his um
his bloody mary recipe is
just tomato juice and vodka with a slice
of lime on the uh
on the side yep and he puts it into a
chilled champagne glass
so so i'm not too i'm not too far off on
the coop no
because the um the floridia doesn't tell
you what to put it in other than to put
it in a fancy glass
but you know you could solve that by
just doing a little rim doing a rim easy
little rim
be good to go and those are the
evolution that's the evolution of a
cocktail
people come in and they say just a
little bit we add a little bit a little
bit a little
something a little something so
don't just tell me in the comments
section that i'm wrong and
i'm crazy that this 1939
fine you want the evidence find the
evidence do the research
give me the footnotes so that i can look
it up
and if you happen to be someone who goes
onto wikipedia
maybe you could go onto wikipedia and
tell them that this cocktail is in this
book
because nobody mentions it in any of the
research that i found
that this that this cocktail even exists
which i think is a shame
because it is the very first
bloody mary thanks for stopping by see
you again soon
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