Killing Rasputin Cocktail Recipe
The Killing Rasputin Cocktail was created by Theresa Turner for 1147vodka.com. Here's how the story goes.
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, also known as the "Mad Monk," was a mystic and an adviser to Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. In December 1916, convinced that Rasputin's influence over the royal family had become too great, a group of noblemen conspired to kill him.
They lured Rasputin to a palace, where they fed him cakes and wine laced with cyanide -- enough to kill five men. Rasputin was unaffected by the poison.
One of the nobles then shot him four times in the back with a revolver and left him for dead. Rasputin, however, struggled to his feet and grappled with the shooter, whereupon the other nobles returned and clubbed him to death.
Or so they thought. The nobles bundled Rasputin into sheets, took him outside, and threw him into the icy Neva River.
Three days later, the body of Rasputin, poisoned, shot four times and badly beaten, was recovered from the Neva River and autopsied.
The cause of death was hypothermia. His arms were found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice.
It took the nobles four tries to kill Rasputin. The four kinds of berries in the recipe commemorate the Mad Monk's macabre will to live.
Ingredients
1 oz White Birch Vodka1/2 oz Raspberry Brandy
1/2 oz Vimto fruit cordial (black currant and raspberry)
Dash of blueberry liqueur
Splash of cranberry juice
Lime wheel (garnish)
Directions
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with ultra thin lime wheel.The following measurements are equal: 1 oz = 30ml = 1 tot = 1 shot = 3cl
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