The Seder Table
Each guest will require:
- Maror and chazeret - bitter herbs
- Charoset - mortar
- Karpas - spring greens (garnishing the Maror)
- Z'roa - shank
- Beitzah - egg
- Orange - nothing rhymes with this
- Bowl of salt water
Also on the table:
- 3 pieces of matzah on a tray, covered with a cloth
- Extra matzah for noshing
- Something to eat, later on, after the drinking, and before the rest of the drinking.
Bloody Mary (Maror)
- 1.5 oz vodka
- 3 oz tomato juice
- 1.5 oz lemon juice
- 0.5 t worcestershire sauce
- 3 drops Tabasco sauce
- pepper
- salt
- 0.25 t celery salt
- 0.5 T prepared horseradish
- Karpas (celery or green onion or pickled green beans) to garnish
Hot Apple Pie (Charoset)
Version 1
- 0.75 c Hot apple cider
- 2 oz Rum
- A dash of cinnamon and a few drops of vanilla extract
- Whipped cream to top
Makes 5-6 shots
Version 2
- 1 oz Irish cream
- 1 oz Cinnamon schnapps (Goldschager, Hot Damn, etc.)
Bull Shot (Z'roa)
Bull Shot
- 0.5 t Worcestershire sauce
- 4 oz beef broth
- 0.5 t lime juice
- 1 oz vodka
- 1 dash Tabasco sauce (Optional)
Mud and Blood (Z'roa or Orange or Both?)
- 2 oz. carrot juice
- 2 oz. beef bouillon
- 2 oz. fresh orange juice
- 1 dash Tabasco sauce
- 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
- 2 oz. pepper vodka
Shake with ice, strain into a large highball glass, and serve.
Egg Nog (Beitzah)
- 4 eggs, separated
- 0.5 c sugar
- 0.5 c white rum
- 1.5 c milk
- 1.5 c whiskey
- 1 c cream
- Fresh grated nutmeg
- Whip the egg whites with half the sugar until stiff peaks form
- Whip yolks with the other half of the sugar until ribbons form
- Combine the egg whites and the yolks and continue mixing on low speed.
- Stir in the rum, then the milk, then the whiskey, then half of the cream.
- In a separate bowl, whip the other half of the cream.
- When whipped, gently fold the cream into the eggnog mixture.
- Ladle room temperature eggnog into cups and sprinkle with a small amount of nutmeg.
Makes 6 cups of eggnog, which can easily serve 8 guests.
Screwdriver (Orange)
- 2 oz vodka
- 4 oz orange juice
Put 3 ice cubes into a highball glass. Pour in vodka. Fill balance of glass with orange juice, stir, and serve.