Recipe - Bloody Mary Party Soup

2 One half cup Minced onion
2 cup Minced celery
1 One fourth cup Peeled, seeded and minced
Cucumber
8 lg Cloves fresh garlic, minced
2 tablespoon Butter or margarine
4 cn 46 oz. ea. tomato juice
1 One half cup Lemon juice
3 tablespoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Tabasco sauce
One half teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 Bottle (fifth) Vodka
One half cup Green onion, cut or sliced up

Saute onion, celery, cucumber and garlic in butter until soft. Add tomato
juice, lemon juice, sugar, Tabasco and Worcestershire; simmer 7 to 8
minutes. Chill. Place vodka bottle in No. 10 can filled with water; freeze
until ice is solid. Remove can but keep vodka surrounded in ice and
wrapped in a towel. To serve: portion soup into serving bowl. Garnish with
green onion. Add 1 oz. jigger of vodka per serving of soup at table.

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