Cocktail recipe

Blood and Sand

A shaken cocktail featuring Scotch whiskey, Cherry heering, Sweet Vermouth.

Blood and Sand cocktail

Ingredients

  • 22.5 ml Scotch Whisky
  • 22.5 ml Cherry Heering
  • 22.5 ml Sweet Vermouth
  • 22.5 ml Orange Juice

Method

  1. Add Scotch Whisky, Cherry heering, Sweet Vermouth and Orange Juice to a shaker.
  2. Add ice and shake until cold.
  3. Strain into a chilled coupe.
  4. Optional garnish: orange peel.
  5. Optional flamed-orange finish: briefly warm the skin side of an orange peel with a lit match, then squeeze the peel’s oils through the flame above the drink. Extinguish the match and use the peel as garnish.

Story

Named after the 1922 Rudolph Valentino bullfighting film and printed in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930. Scotch, cherry liqueur, sweet vermouth and orange juice should not work together, and somehow do.