Re: Cocktail Hour
It’s Friday, and an odd mood seems to be afoot in Salon blogburbia, so I figured I’d have another cocktail hour.
This is one I learned while my sister was working at the charmingly eccentric and wildly popular Clyde’s of Chevy Chase restaurant in suburban Maryland. It’s a popular place for the retired crowd, due to its elegant recall of times past. This drink was especially popular with men who were young in the WWII era. It’s the almost-famous and completely baffling Bullshot.
Touted as a hangover cure (as all the weirdest drinks are), the most basic recipe is a combination of vodka and consommé’ or beef bullion, but there are many variations. It’s not for everyone, obviously, but is notable as being one of the few meat-centric cocktails I’ve ever tried.
An older gentleman of Russian-Jewish descent once told me that this drink, made with chicken broth, originated as a cold cure back in Mother Russia, but I don’t believe a word of it (however, I’ve been wrong about things like this before).
Original Bullshot
1 1/2 ounces vodka
3 ounces beef bouillon or consommé’
1 to 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 dash A-1 sauce
1 dash Tabasco
1 dash Angostura bitters
Celery salt
Shake ingredients with cracked ice; strain into either a tumbler filled with ice
or a cocktail glass without ice. Garnish with a lemon twist.
For an interesting variation, use pepper-infused vodka.
To make a Bloody Bull, add a big splash of tomato juice. For a “Barnacle Bull” (isn’t that cute?), add a splash of Clamato (and you were wondering why anyone would sell a combination of tomato and clam juice; now you know).
10:11:21 AM 
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