The Cocktail Hr - Classic Margarita


Have a drinkable amongst us! (video)

 After the calendar week is over, the operate calendar week has finish, and the chores are done, nosotros similar to pass some fourth dimension on Lord's Day afternoon to simply relax amongst a drinkable on the patio piece nosotros scout for birds as well as wild animals inward the hills behind our house...this is our "cocktail hour."

This volition live on a novel characteristic on the blog, occasionally showing you lot what we're drinking this calendar week as well as how to arrive yourself.  We'll start off amongst 1 of the classics - the margarita.


 There are a few stories of how the margarita was invented.  Myself, I similar to retrieve this is the truthful story...Rita Hayworth, who originally went past times the refer of Margarita Cansino, was drinking amongst friends downwardly inward United Mexican States at the Halfway House bar.  It is called the Halfway House because it is halfway betwixt Tijuana as well as Ensenada.  She asked the bartender to build her something amongst tequila as well as thence she wouldn't accept to set upwards amongst the harshness of the shot as well as thence he made upwards the drinkable amongst lime juice, triple sec, as well as tequila amongst common salt on the rim of the drinking glass as well as named the drinkable afterward her.  We used to accept drinks at the Halfway House as well as remove heed the bartender country us the storey (another local innovation is the Cesar Salad, created at the Hotel Cesar inward Tijuana) but nosotros haven't been at that spot inward over 25 years.  The eating seat dates dorsum to the get-go of the 20th century as well as is withal there, withal serving margaritas as well as more.

Here is our version of this classic drink.  Note that nosotros serve it on the rocks...as intended.   This is non the travesty that is a blended (or frozen) margarita.

CLASSIC MARGARITA RECIPE
Ingredients (for 2 drinks)
2 oz. Tequlia (get a skillful tequila that's labeled "100% puro de agave")
1 oz. Grand Marnier, Cointreau, or triple s (the firstly 2 volition accept a really positive lawsuit on the taste)
splash of brandy or cognac
1 lime
4-5 oz. sweetness as well as sour mix (our 2 favorite brands are Tavern as well as Finest Call)
kosher salt.

Put common salt inward shallow bowl or spread out on plate.  Slice the lime into 2 halves.  Run the opened upwards lime closed to the rim of the drinking glass as well as thence that at that spot is a fine sheen of lime juice on it (use a margarita glass, a cocktail glass, or an sometime fashioned drinking glass if you lot accept zippo else).  Fill a cocktail shaker most 1/3 total amongst ice, crushed would live on preferable.  We use half liter glass shaker.  Take 1 of the lime halves as well as squeeze the juice into the shaker.  Put inward the residue of your liquid ingredients, putting inward the sweetness as well as sour final as well as filling to the top.  Put the lid on the shaker as well as shake.  Fill the spectacles most 2/3 total amongst H2O ice as well as strain the drinkable into them.

Cheers!
-Darryl

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