Post #756582 by AceExplorer on Wed, Dec 30, 2015 5:51 AM

On the Blood and Sand, which sounds tasty, I did a quick web search and found more about the origin of the drink. The name is stated to have been derived from a Valentino movie, with blood orange juice in the drink linking it further to the film. My Google search result page showed the recipe from Wikipedia along with a nice photo of the drink. I pasted a screen shot below.

I admire drinks with simple recipes, they're quick and easy when you get an itch to try something without a ton of effort. I'm going to play around with this a bit. Maybe I can find some blood oranges to squeeze, although the store-bought fruit is often not tree-ripened enough. I'll try it with regular OJ first, and will swap out rum and scotch as well to see how those go.

Could this be the "original classic" recipe per Wikipedia? I didn't dig further, maybe someone else can ad more info.