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Drink · 6 min · 1 tall glass

Savory Mary cooler

A Mary that leads with Worcestershire and celery. Lime, heat, tomato. Vodka if you mean a drink. Salt the rim. Don't make soup.

The sheet · 1 tall glass · 6 min

easy

Why tonight. A Mary that leads with Worcestershire and celery. Lime, heat, tomato. Vodka if you mean a drink. Salt the rim. Don't make soup.

What it needs

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

  • tomato
  • lime
  • worcestershire
  • celery
  • hot sauce

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: vodka.

Method

  1. Worcestershire is doing the job the alcohol would have done: it brings anchovy, tamarind and vinegar, which is depth, sweetness and acid at once.
  2. Season the tomato juice properly and taste it before you stop. Under-salted tomato juice tastes of tin.
  3. Roll it between two glasses rather than shaking, or it goes pale and frothy.
  4. Celery in the glass as a stirrer, lime squeezed in at the table, hot sauce to taste.

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

tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
lime
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
worcestershire
Anchovy, tamarind and vinegar pretending to be a condiment.
celery
Salinity and a bitter green edge, which is why it sits in so many bases without ever being the point.
hot sauce
Acid as much as heat, which is why it lifts a dish that already has chili in it.

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.

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