Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership
Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio. In January of eighteen eighty one, The Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Examiner described doctor Charles Lewis Blood as quote forty five
Speaker 1: years of age, but looks to be not above thirty five.
Speaker 1: He is nearly six feet tall in height and is
Speaker 1: well built, with a fresh, fair complexion, a good suit
Speaker 1: of brown hair which he wears in curls, and is
Speaker 1: very affable, it is claimed. The report continued that he
Speaker 1: had been operating as a sort of confidence man and
Speaker 1: that he had no right to the title MD. The
Speaker 1: Boston Globe described him as having a quote national reputation
Speaker 1: for crooked work, and according to Chicago's Inter Ocean newspaper
Speaker 1: in February of eighteen ninety, police described him as quote
Speaker 1: the silkiest and slipperist confidence man in the business. So
Speaker 1: let's meet this so called doctor Blood. Welcome to Criminalia.
Speaker 1: I'm Maria Tremarqui and I'm Holly Fry. Charles Lewis Blood
Speaker 1: was an American con artist who operated primarily in Boston,
Speaker 1: with time also spent in New York City, Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: the Chicago area. Charles was born in Groton, Massachusetts, about
Speaker 1: forty or so miles west of Boston, on September eighth,
Speaker 1: eighteen thirty five. He was the son of Lewis Blood,
Speaker 1: a successful farmer, timber dealer, contractor, and prominent citizen of
Speaker 1: the town. Although Charles always maintained the story that his
Speaker 1: father was a physician, people who knew him in the
Speaker 1: family years earlier denied that his father was ever a doctor,
Speaker 1: But Charles never strayed from his story. We know nothing
Speaker 1: about his childhood. In fact, we don't find much about
Speaker 1: him in the historical record until he's about thirty years old.
Speaker 1: He fabricates a medical career. It starts up a column.
Speaker 1: Charles was a self proclaimed doctor, and he sold a
Speaker 1: patent medical treatment known as oxygenized air, which he promoted
Speaker 1: as a cure for all sorts of problems, from postnasal
Speaker 1: drip to tuberculosis. His oxygenized air was actually nitrous oxide,
Speaker 1: which you may better know is laughing gas. It's a colorless,
Speaker 1: nonflammable gas that has a mildly sweet odor and taste,
Speaker 1: and when inhaled, it can cause feelings of euphoria, relaxation,
Speaker 1: and calmness. As well as fits of giggles, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's a reason it's nicknamed laughing gas. Charles manufactured his
Speaker 1: own product, but he wasn't the first to use nitrous oxide.
Speaker 1: It was first synthesized by Joseph Priestley in seventeen seventy
Speaker 1: two and then introduced as an analgesic by Humphrey Davy
Speaker 1: in eighteen hundred. In eighteen forty four, it was first
Speaker 1: used as a surgical and esthetic, and still is today
Speaker 1: as a mild sedative. It's long been used to calm
Speaker 1: anxiety and dentistry, but it's not a cure for any
Speaker 1: respiratory ailment, as Charles promised. Charles arrived in Boston in
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five and soon established himself as a curer
Speaker 1: of consumption which we now call tuberculosis and respiratory diseases
Speaker 1: by means of his patented oxygenized air. He kept his
Speaker 1: headquarters on Chauncey Street in the city. Charles started out
Speaker 1: his khan with a khn, meaning he swindled and experienced
Speaker 1: and respected businessmen from Wellesley, Massachusetts. A mister Humphrey Cummings
Speaker 1: whose name may have been Whitney Cummings into advancing him
Speaker 1: forty five hundred dollars in capital for his oxygenized air treatment.
Speaker 1: The dividends coming received from their partnership were no more
Speaker 1: valuable than the air Charles was peddling to his marks,
Speaker 1: and it didn't take long before Cummings demanded his money
Speaker 1: be returned to him. Charles never paid out, and about
Speaker 1: a year later the entire matter was closed when Cummings died.
Speaker 1: Doctor Blood had a full patient load and frequently promoted
Speaker 1: his medical services in full page newspaper ads across the city.
Speaker 1: He also issued an advertising sheet of his own, which
Speaker 1: he broadcast throughout the surrounding counties. As an example, on
Speaker 1: May first, eighteen sixty seven, an advertisement in the Lewiston
Speaker 1: Evening Journal in Maine read, in part quote, qatar. In
Speaker 1: America today we call this post nasal drip, which is
Speaker 1: just a build up of phlegm in your throat. But
Speaker 1: qatar should not be ignored, as it is apt to
Speaker 1: lead to fatal pulmonary complaints. It is easily cured with
Speaker 1: oxyanogized air. Oxyanogized air is also a remedy for consumption.
Speaker 1: The remedy is given by inhalation breathed directly into the
Speaker 1: lungs and through them carried into the circulating fluids of
Speaker 1: the body, decomposing the impure matter in the blood and
Speaker 1: expelling it through the pores. As do not have to
Speaker 1: experiment long to learn results. The effects are immediate, and
Speaker 1: but a short time is required to perfect a cure
Speaker 1: in any curable cure. He often used that somewhat confusing
Speaker 1: slogan a cure in any curable cure when promoting his product.
Speaker 1: But anyway, business boomed and the fraudulent doctor upgraded his
Speaker 1: office into an opulently appointed clinic located at one ninety
Speaker 1: nine Harrison Avenue in the South End neighborhood of the city.
Speaker 1: He saw a steady stream of patients throughout the day,
Speaker 1: yet some historians question whether or not he used shills
Speaker 1: people that he paid to give the appearance that he
Speaker 1: was running a bustling business. He was described by the
Speaker 1: Interocean as quote quick in motion, with small, sparkling eyes
Speaker 1: and a plausible manner, calculated to win those inexperienced in
Speaker 1: reading human nature. Charles was already making a tidy wage
Speaker 1: when he sold the rights to administer oxygenized air to
Speaker 1: other real physicians, and that's when Charles found himself with
Speaker 1: a rival. But first we're going to take a break
Speaker 1: forward from our sponsor before we talk about the emergence
Speaker 1: of a doctor Jerome Harris. Welcome back to Criminalia. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about what happened when a patient was treated with
Speaker 1: a therapy called superoxygenized air by a real physician, not
Speaker 1: Charles Blood. Not long after Charles sold the rights to
Speaker 1: his air, a doctor Jerome Harris, a real physician who
Speaker 1: practiced in Boston, had begun applying nitrous oxide to patients
Speaker 1: under the therapy name super oxygenized Air. We don't know
Speaker 1: what made Harris's therapy super, but we'll go on. Not
Speaker 1: only was Harris trading on Charles's stick, he was doing
Speaker 1: it out of Charles's former office on Chauncey Street. One
Speaker 1: day in the winter of eighteen sixty six, doctor Harris
Speaker 1: was called upon by a mister Carville of Lewiston, Maine,
Speaker 1: who complained of bronchial symptoms and specifically requested Harris's super
Speaker 1: oxygenized air therapy. Within moments of receiving treatment, though Carville
Speaker 1: fell into a seizure upon returning home, he called for
Speaker 1: his own physician for follow up treatment, and that physician
Speaker 1: turned out to be yes doctor Charles Blood. The next day,
Speaker 1: the press wrote, well, they wrote a lot, both fact
Speaker 1: and fiction. Most described the scene as one where doctor
Speaker 1: Harris had poisoned Carville by administering super oxygenized air. They
Speaker 1: also noted the subsequent relief that Carville received through the
Speaker 1: treatment of physician doctor Blood. For Charles, this media attention
Speaker 1: was amazing for developing a much larger pool of marks. Usually,
Speaker 1: as a con artist, you don't want media attention because
Speaker 1: it might spoil the game, but in this instance, he
Speaker 1: made sure the press and the public were all aware
Speaker 1: of Carville's continued improvement under his care. Not one to
Speaker 1: pass up a marketing moment, he was quick to point
Speaker 1: out that improvement was due to his own harmless oxygenized air,
Speaker 1: and often he would include his office address for those
Speaker 1: who wished to try it themselves. Carvill sued Harris, which
Speaker 1: kept the story in the media even longer, and it
Speaker 1: turned doctor Blood into a local medical hero in the press.
Speaker 1: Harris's legal counsel advised that Harris was being blackmailed by
Speaker 1: Blood and Carvill, and that Carvill was being paid off
Speaker 1: to make Harris look like a poor physician and Blood
Speaker 1: a superior one. You know. Ruse. That was basically an
Speaker 1: entire staged event, but in the end no illegal activity
Speaker 1: was proven. The case fell through, Harris left Boston and
Speaker 1: Charles's practice quote continued in high Feather. Charles didn't do
Speaker 1: all his work in Boston. He ran a brief oxygenized
Speaker 1: Air Cohn in Chicago in eighteen seventy five and eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy six, where he set up an office on the
Speaker 1: corner of State in Madison. There are some back number
Speaker 1: directories still available that placed the doctor at two different
Speaker 1: addresses on Madison Street. First he was at seventy seven
Speaker 1: and then six eighty three. A mister Charles S. Cruspy
Speaker 1: was the agent for the property at seventy seven Madison,
Speaker 1: and later told the Interocean quote, why yes, I remember
Speaker 1: doctor Blood. He came here in the spring of eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy five and rented a suite of rooms on the
Speaker 1: fourth floor. He was a fine looking man and dressed nicely.
Speaker 1: He paid his rent promptly in advance and always seems
Speaker 1: to have of money. He did a good business too,
Speaker 1: and he had lots of papers and circulars that he
Speaker 1: would have distributed. He seemed to be introducing a new treatment,
Speaker 1: the oxygen treatment I believe it was called, and was
Speaker 1: advertising it pretty freely. He always did a good business,
Speaker 1: and after being here about a year, he sold out
Speaker 1: to a man I don't remember his name and went away.
Speaker 1: The man did not stay here but a month or
Speaker 1: so and then moved away. I believe that doctor Blood
Speaker 1: left the city. I don't know where he went or
Speaker 1: where he came from. Doctor Blood never had any trouble
Speaker 1: here so far as I know, and when he left here,
Speaker 1: I never heard from him again until you mentioned his
Speaker 1: name to me. In eighteen eighty, doctor C. L. Blood
Speaker 1: authored a book on medicine entitled A Century of Life,
Speaker 1: Health and Happiness or a gold Mine of Information, A
Speaker 1: Cyclopedia of Medical Information for Home, Life, Health, and Domestic Economy.
Speaker 1: It was essentially a collection of medical information for the home,
Speaker 1: and it was written in a period when Charles's focus
Speaker 1: changed from nitrous oxide inhalation to homeopathy, and in it
Speaker 1: he spends a good amount of time discussing okay, truth
Speaker 1: be told, there's a lot of hemorrhoid talk. He also
Speaker 1: focuses on the quote sickening habit of eating undercooked meat.
Speaker 1: Other highlights include chapters on how to properly wash your
Speaker 1: feet to tips for silencing embarrassing stomach growling. He writes
Speaker 1: about physicians over medicating their patients and includes marketing copy
Speaker 1: for his own clinic, presumably where treatments were better and
Speaker 1: no lie. The book ends with a section called Cooking Formulas,
Speaker 1: which includes a lot of recipes for everything from baking
Speaker 1: powder to sauces to puddings, too pies. There's some good
Speaker 1: recipes in this book. When it came to baking powder,
Speaker 1: doctor Blood advised that his homemade version was healthier. As
Speaker 1: part of his book Sales Techniques, Charles advertised in the
Speaker 1: book itself that random book buyers would be given prizes
Speaker 1: of up to five hundred dollars, and all they had
Speaker 1: to do was buy the book. He also suggested buyers
Speaker 1: by several books and sell their surplus. No one collected
Speaker 1: on these, but that swindle got him arrested in eighteen
Speaker 1: eighty three. The arrest went nowhere, but his name was
Speaker 1: splashed over Boston newspapers, and one newspaper referred to him
Speaker 1: as a quote philanthropic swindler. Three years later, an investor
Speaker 1: by the name of Charles Baker alleged that doctor Blood
Speaker 1: defrauded him of two hundred and ten dollars when he
Speaker 1: failed to provide copies of his book to backers's promised,
Speaker 1: and took the matter to the authorities. A warrant was
Speaker 1: issued for Charles's arrest in Massachusetts, but at that time
Speaker 1: he was already wanted in the state for various misdemeanors.
Speaker 1: He was taken into custody in Philadelphia actually and returned
Speaker 1: to Massachusetts on a charge of defrauding by false pretenses.
Speaker 1: While he was running this long con, Charles had other
Speaker 1: run ins with the law, most related in some way
Speaker 1: to his oxygenized air scam. We're looking at fraud, blackmail, murder,
Speaker 1: and tax evasion. Tax evasion, you ask. Charles got pinched
Speaker 1: by the Feds, but not for running a con. It
Speaker 1: was for failing to properly stamp his patent medicines. Never
Speaker 1: mind the quackery of the product, the labels. The labels
Speaker 1: have to be correct. Charles left Boston in the custody
Speaker 1: of two Deputy US Marshals, and he reappeared sometime later
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. But I want to back up and talk
Speaker 1: for a minute about why they arrested him and what
Speaker 1: that stamp was all about. A patent granted the medicine
Speaker 1: maker a monopoly over their particular formula. In the United States,
Speaker 1: after the American Civil War, the patent medicine trade was
Speaker 1: very lucrative, and the medicines were aggressively marketed. During the war,
Speaker 1: patent medicines were taxed, as were matches, playing cards, perfumes,
Speaker 1: and other articles to fund the war effort. So from
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty two to eighteen eighty three, patent medicines required
Speaker 1: tax stamps placed on all packaging. Until federal drug regulations
Speaker 1: were put in place in nineteen oh six. Patent medicine
Speaker 1: manufacturers could also make any therapeutic claims for their product
Speaker 1: that they could think of, literally anything a pill that
Speaker 1: cures cancer? Sure, why not. The second half of the
Speaker 1: nineteenth century is generally considered to be the golden age
Speaker 1: of American patent medicines, in part because of rapid increases
Speaker 1: in industry and manufacturing, but really because there was an
Speaker 1: absence of drug regulation. So without drug regulation, why would
Speaker 1: people give something potentially sketchy like oxygenized air? Go Probably
Speaker 1: for a few reasons. Actually, doctors didn't have the training
Speaker 1: that positions due today. With some exceptions, most were trained
Speaker 1: through two year apprenticeships without formal education requirements. Procedures and
Speaker 1: treatments often used harmful tools, and practitioners were rarely regulated.
Speaker 1: The time when Charles pulled his column is now referred
Speaker 1: to as one of heroic medicine, when some extreme techniques
Speaker 1: like bleeding, blistering, and purging were prescribed by physicians to
Speaker 1: restore the natural balance of the body. Treatments often didn't
Speaker 1: work or they made you worse. You literally might be
Speaker 1: risking your life instead of saving it. This was also
Speaker 1: before the advent of germ theory that discovery wouldn't happen
Speaker 1: until the end of the nineteenth century, so physicians didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot to offer in a competition with patent
Speaker 1: medicines promises of a cure in a bottle. We're going
Speaker 1: to take a break for a word from our sponsor,
Speaker 1: and when we're back, we'll talk about how it wasn't
Speaker 1: all about maitros oxide. We'll look at the side crimes
Speaker 1: Charles engaged in while running his oxygenized air scam. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Criminalia. Charles ran his medical con for decades,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the only crime he was involved in.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about not just fraud, but blackmail and murder
Speaker 1: charges as well. Charles was in the paper again in
Speaker 1: May of eighteen eighty four, but not in the same
Speaker 1: positive way he had been after Carville's treatment. He was
Speaker 1: arrested by Boston authorities for blackmailing a local musician named
Speaker 1: Ernest Weber. This instance is one that didn't have anything
Speaker 1: to do with the con. This instance involved a woman.
Speaker 1: In April that year, Charles began dating a woman named
Speaker 1: Jeanette Nickerson, and the two were often seen together theaters, lectures,
Speaker 1: and they dined almost daily at Young's Hotel. That's meaningful
Speaker 1: because guests at Young's usually included names like Mark Twain, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: Katie Stanton, and Rutherford B. Hayes. And during their relationship,
Speaker 1: Charles had procured or perhaps coerced, an affidavid from Janet Nickerson,
Speaker 1: stating that we're going to paraphrase this she had been
Speaker 1: quote ruined under promise of marriage by Webber, and that
Speaker 1: Webber had furthermore employed a physician to terminate a pregnancy,
Speaker 1: a procedure that had nearly taken her life. One of
Speaker 1: Charles's cronies, a doctor Townsend, delivered the Affidavid to Webber,
Speaker 1: and Webber was threatened with criminal prosecution unless he paid
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars. Webber wisely consulted with the police, who,
Speaker 1: in response arrested doctor Blood and doctor Townsend. Both men
Speaker 1: were convicted of blackmail and sentenced to several years in prison.
Speaker 1: But it's the murder of Hiram Sawtel on February fifth,
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety that was Charles's pre eminent crime. Probably if
Speaker 1: he did it, he got away with it. The story
Speaker 1: goes like this. Hiram was a fruiterer living in Boston
Speaker 1: with his mother and family. His brother Isaac, recently home
Speaker 1: upon release from prison, argued with Hiram regarding their late
Speaker 1: father's estate. Technically, the property was in their mother's name,
Speaker 1: but Hiram managed it for her. Isaac had decided he
Speaker 1: wanted to control it. This all seems like an unfortunate
Speaker 1: but pretty common family dispute at this point, But now
Speaker 1: let's step back a minute. Isaac and Charles Blood knew
Speaker 1: each other. They had met in prison, and upon hearing
Speaker 1: Isaac's plate, Charles offered to force Hiram's hand in the matter.
Speaker 1: His fee was five hundred dollars and they were going
Speaker 1: to have to bring in a third person to pull
Speaker 1: it off. They agreed they had a deal. Isaac kicked
Speaker 1: things off with kidnapping Hiram's daughter Marian, not in any
Speaker 1: way to hurt her, but in an effort to lure
Speaker 1: her father to a remote location in Maine, and that's
Speaker 1: where Charles and the intended third party would be waiting
Speaker 1: to muscle Hiram into giving up control over their mother's property.
Speaker 1: This plan, though, did not play out as they had envisioned.
Speaker 1: Hiram was shot four times. We don't know who did
Speaker 1: the shooting. We don't know why guns were even fired.
Speaker 1: Hiram did not survive, and the men took care of
Speaker 1: the body in a particularly grizzly manner, first by decapitating
Speaker 1: it and then partially dismembering it. They buried him in
Speaker 1: a shallow grave. After her husband's disappearance, Hiram's wife immediately
Speaker 1: suspected that Isaac had murdered him, and she notified the authorities.
Speaker 1: Hiram's body. It was found ten days after his murder
Speaker 1: when Isaac was arrested. He had two train tickets to
Speaker 1: Montreal with him, one of which was thought to be
Speaker 1: for Charles Blood. Charles's picture was being circulated after the murder,
Speaker 1: and he was recognized by a hotelier, a Missus Richmond,
Speaker 1: who contacted the police after seeing his photo in her
Speaker 1: local Sunday paper. She told authorities, quote, why I know
Speaker 1: that man? He called here a week ago today. It
Speaker 1: was in the afternoon. He asked for a room. I
Speaker 1: told him I had one, but when I looked at
Speaker 1: his face, I refused to give him one. He had
Speaker 1: two bundles, one done up in wrapping paper. It might
Speaker 1: have contained clothes. The other was done up in a
Speaker 1: newspaper about the size of a man's head. He looked
Speaker 1: just like the picture of doctor Blood. I sent him
Speaker 1: to mister Hall's. Later, when the picture was shown to
Speaker 1: mister Hall, he told authorities he recognized him, and the
Speaker 1: man had quote engaged rooms of him last Monday, but
Speaker 1: did not come back. Hall also stated he saw him
Speaker 1: on the street that same evening. Isaac was charged with
Speaker 1: conspiracy and with the murder of Hiram Sawtell. The indictment
Speaker 1: contained these two counts, one charge of willful murder of
Speaker 1: his brother, and the other charge that he hired, procured,
Speaker 1: or otherwise induced some party to commit the crime. While
Speaker 1: awaiting trial, Isaac confessed to the plot to intimidate his brother,
Speaker 1: but he denied prior knowledge of or taking part in murder.
Speaker 1: He claimed that Charles owed Hiram a good deal of
Speaker 1: money and that he had killed him to escape repayment.
Speaker 1: Hiram's widow, though, was not having this. She claimed, quote,
Speaker 1: he never had any money dealings with doctor Blood. You
Speaker 1: may rest assured Hiram wouldn't dream of lending that scamp
Speaker 1: money or anything. Hiram wasn't that kind of man being
Speaker 1: close in such matters, Nor would he or did he
Speaker 1: borrow money from doctor Blood, supposing that the latter had
Speaker 1: it to lend. And Isaac says doctor Blood owed my
Speaker 1: husband money. I'm sure that it is one of six bluffs.
Speaker 1: Hiram's widow also claimed that Isaac had told her Charles
Speaker 1: was quote a man who will do anything for a dollar.
Speaker 1: Despite the hotelier's statements in Isaac's last minute confession, Charles
Speaker 1: was never questioned by the authorities. Isaac was convicted of
Speaker 1: his brother's murder, and he was sentenced to death. He
Speaker 1: died from complications of a stroke on the night of
Speaker 1: December twenty sixth, eighteen ninety one, shortly before his scheduled execution,
Speaker 1: at age fifty five. Charles Blood died nearly two decades
Speaker 1: after Isaac's trial, on September twenty seventh, nineteen oh eight,
Speaker 1: in his early seventies of an unnamed illness, So Piers,
Speaker 1: it turns out that his oxygenized air couldn't cure everything.
Speaker 1: He was buried in the family plot, but his widow
Speaker 1: and surviving sisters chose not to add his name to
Speaker 1: the memorial. And that is our doctor cl Blood, your blood.
Speaker 1: Please tell me we have a red drink for our
Speaker 1: scamsel We do, and it is unbelievably delicious. This is
Speaker 1: one of those cases, right, like sometimes you got a
Speaker 1: tweak stuff, but this is when we're right out of
Speaker 1: the gate. It was correct. It just came together. So
Speaker 1: I knew that I wanted to do something red. I
Speaker 1: know it's obvious, but we've been doing all of our
Speaker 1: scam artists, but we haven't had a good, grizzly and
Speaker 1: dark thing in a while. And the name doctor Blood
Speaker 1: is so good. I feel like doctor Blood deserves to
Speaker 1: have a bloody beverage in no matter, all of my
Speaker 1: Halloween feelings were awakened. So I made a little something
Speaker 1: called Doctor Blood's Tonic, and I wanted obviously to have
Speaker 1: an airiness to it, because it's oxygen, I right, right,
Speaker 1: And did you put nitrousendens drink? No, dear Lord, no, no,
Speaker 1: I made something else to make it airy. This I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. There are a few steps here, none
Speaker 1: of them are hard, but just stay with me. In
Speaker 1: your mixing tin, you are going to combine a pretty
Speaker 1: basic easy recipe. Three quarters of an ounce of lemon juice,
Speaker 1: three quarters of an ounce of an aggave syrup. I
Speaker 1: like a heavier, darker syrup in this one, two ounces
Speaker 1: of pomegranate juice, and an ounce and a half of
Speaker 1: the whiskey or bourbon of your choice. Like everything in
Speaker 1: this drink. Oh, it's gonna get even better. You will
Speaker 1: want to have had during this like a martini glass
Speaker 1: chilling in your chiller or fridge, or just fill it
Speaker 1: with ice and let it sit while you mix your drink.
Speaker 1: You're gonna shake this drink up and in the meantime,
Speaker 1: you are also going to take one egg white I've
Speaker 1: come around, or if you do pasteurized egg whites like that,
Speaker 1: you can pour out of the container. I use this
Speaker 1: all the time. There's no shame in that game. It
Speaker 1: does take more effort to get it frothy. But here
Speaker 1: is what I did for this one. I didn't immediately
Speaker 1: mix it with the rest of the drink. I put
Speaker 1: it in its own little container, and I used my
Speaker 1: coffee froth to whip it and like an ounce of
Speaker 1: the poort egg white. Again, that's a measure with your
Speaker 1: heart moment, but it was a boat an ounce and
Speaker 1: get it nice and frothy, and then add it to
Speaker 1: the cocktail mix and mix it all up together. Before
Speaker 1: you strain this out, you're gonna take your martini glass
Speaker 1: out of the chiller and you are going to glaze
Speaker 1: the inside of it with ginger liqueur. This is one
Speaker 1: of those cases where the pre chilled glass really helps
Speaker 1: because the ginger liqueur sticks to the sides, it slows
Speaker 1: down its viscosity so it doesn't just drain all to
Speaker 1: the bottom. And then you're gonna strain that cocktail right
Speaker 1: into it, and then you're gonna sip it and you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear the singing of angels, and you will feel
Speaker 1: like the light of Heaven has shined upon you and
Speaker 1: everything is good in the world. I'm not kidding. This
Speaker 1: is so delicious I can't even deal with it. There
Speaker 1: was like a magic in the silkiness of the egg.
Speaker 1: That's like part of what is great about an egg
Speaker 1: and a drink is that it gives it this really
Speaker 1: good mouth feel and it's this very velvety texture. But
Speaker 1: like something about that with the pomegranate juice and the whiskey.
Speaker 1: I don't know what sorcery happens. It was like, just
Speaker 1: good luck the mocktail for Doctor Blood's tonic. Now that
Speaker 1: you're oxygenated from all this frothy deliciousness that air, the
Speaker 1: mocktail is easy. You're going to make it exactly the
Speaker 1: same way. This is one where you will just sub out.
Speaker 1: I would make your black tea like we often do
Speaker 1: for a whiskey or bourbon, I would put a drop
Speaker 1: or two of a non alcoholic vanilla extract, because you
Speaker 1: know how you think vanilla extract is going to be
Speaker 1: sweet when you're a kid and you take a swig
Speaker 1: of it and go, oh no, it adds a nice
Speaker 1: note to that tea that it's not heavy vanilla flavor
Speaker 1: at that point, literally like a drop, like you want
Speaker 1: a tiny amount. But it gives that fuller sense of
Speaker 1: having additional kind of dessert no that some bourbons will have,
Speaker 1: for example. So I just highly recommend it. It It gives
Speaker 1: it just makes a symphony. And other than that, you
Speaker 1: will make it exactly the same way with that three
Speaker 1: quarters of an ounce of lemon, three quarters of an
Speaker 1: ounce of agave syrup, an ounce and a half of
Speaker 1: your fake urban or whiskey, two ounces of pomegranate juice,
Speaker 1: with your froft egg white ginger syrup instead of ginger
Speaker 1: liqueur easy piec. If you cannot find ginger syrup, make
Speaker 1: your simple syrup on the stove, a cup of water,
Speaker 1: a cup of sugar, pour in some fresh ginger, just
Speaker 1: sliced up. Or if you have ginger tea, you can
Speaker 1: throw that in with it instead. Let that do its thing,
Speaker 1: and you're in great shape. You have ginger syrup, and
Speaker 1: then you'll want to put that on everything too. I will.
Speaker 1: So that is doctor Blood's tonic, and it is almost
Speaker 1: certainly going to be on my favorite list for this season.
Speaker 1: It is the silkiest selibristlely mouses right so delicious. We
Speaker 1: hope that it makes it onto your favorites list. If
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Speaker 1: with us, so thank you for doing that, and we
Speaker 1: hope that you have had a good time. We will
Speaker 1: be right back here again next week. Look, there's going
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