Virgin Mary

The Virgin Mary is the teetotaler's Bloody Mary — tomato juice stretched over the full savory chord of Worcestershire, hot sauce, lemon, horseradish, celery salt, and cracked pepper, with the vodka simply swapped out for more juice. It keeps every bit of the original's brunch-table swagger: thick, tangy, and bracingly spiced, built straight in a tall glass over ice and crowned with a celery stalk. A fixture of mocktail menus, it descends from the Bloody Mary popularized at New York's St. Regis in the 1930s.

SavoryBrunchClassicN/AMocktail

Ingredients

  • 4.5 ozTomato Juice
  • 0.5 ozLemon Juice
  • 2 dashWorcestershire Sauce
  • 3 dashTabasco
  • Horseradish(to taste)optional
  • Celery Salt(to taste)
  • Black Pepper(to taste)

Garnish: Celery Stalk, Lemon Wedge

Preparation

built · Highball · Cubed

  1. 1.

    add

    Add tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, horseradish, celery salt, and black pepper to a highball glass filled with ice.

  2. 2.

    build

    Stir gently to combine and season, adjusting hot sauce, celery salt, and pepper to taste.

  3. 3.

    garnish

    Garnish with a celery stalk and, optionally, a lemon wedge.

Flavor Profile

umami
67%
body
41%
viscosity
40%
sour
37%
dilution
30%
earthy
25%
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