Skinned Knee

Name: Skinned Knee
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Scotch; 1 twst Orange Peel; 15 ml Lemon Juice; 15 ml Sweet Vermouth; 15 ml Cherry Heering; 15 ml Amer Picon

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Shake Scotch, Sweet Vermouth, Cherry Heering, Amer Picon with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Inspired by the 1922 film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" starring Rudolph Valentino as a bullfighter, the Blood and Sand cocktail was born. A modified version called the Skinned Knee, first shared on eGullet, reduces the serving size to a more approachable 3 ounces.

Method

Shaken

Glass

cocktail

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Herbal

Smoky

Sour

Sweet