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Drink · 4 min · 1 coupe

Blood and Sand

Equal parts scotch, sweet vermouth, cherry liqueur and orange juice. It should not work with scotch in it, and it does.

The sheet · 1 coupe · 4 min

medium

Why tonight. Equal parts scotch, sweet vermouth, cherry liqueur and orange juice. It should not work with scotch in it, and it does.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • scotch
  • sweet vermouth
  • cointreau
  • cherry

Method

  1. Equal parts: ¾ oz each Scotch, sweet vermouth, cherry liqueur and orange juice. Shake, strain up.
  2. It should not work and it does. Scotch and orange juice is the pairing everyone doubts and it is the reason the drink survived.
  3. Blended Scotch. Peat here is a disaster.
  4. Fresh orange juice or nothing. Equal parts means the weakest ingredient is a quarter of the drink, and carton juice will be obvious.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

scotch
Malt, smoke or both depending on the bottle, and it does not sit quietly under other ingredients.
sweet vermouth
Fortified wine, which means it is perishable — an open bottle on a warm shelf is why so many home Manhattans taste dusty.
cointreau
Clean bitter orange with real sweetness behind it, so it does two jobs in a sour and lets you use less syrup.
cherry
Sweet with a bitter almond note in the pit, which is why cherry and almond keep showing up together.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

Update the shelfWhy scotch and sweet vermouth workBack to the ranking