{"id":15738,"date":"2026-03-13T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15738"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:00:20","slug":"friday-cocktail-the-blood-and-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15738","title":{"rendered":"Friday Cocktail &#8211; The Blood and Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strange name comes from a 1922 movie featuring Rudolph Valentino, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_and_Sand_(1922_film)\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_and_Sand_(1922_film)\">Blood and Sand<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blood_and_Sand_1922_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15739\" style=\"width:151px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blood_and_Sand_1922_poster.jpg 250w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Blood_and_Sand_1922_poster-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below the two minute vid is a link to another video &#8211; Anders talking in some length about how the cocktail is not popular with bartenders and also his variation to pep it up a bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blood and Sand Classic Scotch Whiskey Cocktail Recipe\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHooF57JEyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the link to the other video mentioned above, Anders on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r50WUk960qI?si=_lNTgPWsGhvASLeC\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r50WUk960qI?si=_lNTgPWsGhvASLeC\">Blood and Sand<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Farandaville effort, with picture.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3\/4 oz. blended scotch &#8211; by an odd coincidence we also used Money Shoulder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3\/4 oz. Heering Cherry Liqueur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3\/4 oz Dolin red vermouth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3\/4 oz. fresh squeezed orange juice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaken with ice; we garnished with the orange slice. Results: Brigid &#8220;Ok&#8221;, Tom &#8220;Meh&#8221;. Here&#8217;s our picture &#8211; note the color is very close to rust. Some people love it so give it a try. It is recommended to <kbd><strong>avoid<\/strong><\/kbd> scotch with a strong peat flavor despite what Steve the Bartender ends the video saying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260312_174209-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15740\" style=\"width:382px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260312_174209-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260312_174209-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260312_174209-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260312_174209-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260312_174209-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strange name comes from a 1922 movie featuring Rudolph Valentino, Blood and Sand. Below the two minute vid is a link to another video &#8211; Anders talking in some length about how the cocktail is not popular with bartenders and also his variation to pep it up a bit. Here is the link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15741,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15738\/revisions\/15741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}