Bloody Mary tomato juice cocktail

Ingredients:

• 3 large stalks celery with leaves (from the core of the bunch) + extra for serving
• 1 liter of tomato juice
• 2 tsp of prepared horseradish
• 1 teaspoon grated onion on a fine grater
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 0.5 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 0.5 tsp celery salt (a mixture of salt and celery seed powder)
• 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
• 12 drops hot sauce (such as Tabasco), or to taste
• 1.5 cups of vodka

Preparation:

1. Chop the celery into large cubes, including the leaves, and puree in a food processor fitted with a steel blade. In a large pitcher, combine all remaining ingredients except the vodka. With the food processor running, pour 1/4 of the tomato juice mixture through the feed tube.
2. Then pour the contents of the bowl into the pitcher with the remaining tomato juice mixture. Add the vodka and refrigerate. Serve in tall glasses with ice and a celery stick.