#Election Day USA

1. Today is USA Election day!
2. “Hope for the best and be prepared for the worst.”  (Maya Angelou)
3. Good news: stress eating on election day and night is wonderful
4. …I’m sipping and nibbling on anything I want!
5. So now a cocktail I’ve NEVER had…just to ease my
6. …election stress.
7. Blood  & Sand

Backround info:

1. The Blood & Sand is a classic scotch-based cocktail.
2. The recipe first appeared in 1930 in The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock.
3. It is probability, it was named for a 1922 movie starring
4. Rudolph Valentino, the silent-film star known as “The Latin Lover.”
5. Valentino’s performance in Blood and Sand—it centered on a bullfighter and
6. was based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibáñez.

Conclusion:

1. I used  glass well chilled ingredients in shaker with ice
2. …shake till chilled – pour into cocktail glass.
3. Very nice balance of taste!
4. I expected the Cherry Heering to overpower
5. (..tasting like cough syrup) but no…!
6. All 4 ingredients they blend to make their  own  “taste”.
7. This is a lovely “ladies” cocktail!
8. Not too sweet and
9. …you can sip it slowly while gossiping with a BFF!

Ingredients:

1. 3/4 ounce scotch (Irish Redbreast Whiskey) 2 CL
2. 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth 2 CL – substituted cointreau (orange based)
   
3. 3/4 ounce Heering cherry liqueur 2 CL
4. 3/4 ounce orange juice, freshly squeezed 2 CL
5. Garnish: orange peel