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  • Tequila Cocktails

    tequila2The most feared alcohol behind a bar, everyone has a tequila story. Whether it makes you giggle, makes you crazy or just plain makes you sick, everyone knows tequila. Whether in a shot or mixed in a cocktail, tequila is an essential behind the bar. Many of today’s most popular drinks are made with this agave-based alcohol.

    Tequila Slammer

    Ingredients:

    1 part Tequila
    1 part 7-up or Ginger Ale

    Pour Tequila and 7-up or Ginger Ale in a rocks glass. Put a napkin or hand over the top of the glass and slam it on the bar 3 times. Drink immediately.

    Tequila Sunrise

    Ingredients:

    2 oz. Tequila
    3 oz. Orange Juice
    2 dashes Grenadine Syrup
    A splash of lime juice
    Highball Glass

    Pour tequila in a highball glass with ice and top with lime and orange juice. Add grenadine by tipping the glass to its side and pouring the grenadine down the inside, making sure it settles at the bottom. The grenadine should rise slowly though the drink, resembling a sunrise. Serve.

    Margarita (on the rocks)

    Ingredients:

    1 1/2 oz Tequila
    1 oz Cointreau
    1 oz Fresh Lime
    Salt
    Lime wedge for garnish

    In a shaker, pour tequila, cointreau and lime. Shake until thoroughly mixed. Pour into a salt rimmed margarita glass. Garnish with a lime. Serve.

    El Diablo

    Ingredients:

    1 1/2 oz. Tequila
    1/2 oz. Crème de Cassis
    1/2 Lime
    Ginger Ale

    Fill an old fashioned glass half full with ice, squeeze the lime over the ice and place the lime into the glass. Add tequila and crème de cassis, top with gingerale and stir gently.

    Long Island Iced Tea

    Ingredients:

    1/2 oz Vodka
    1/2 oz Gin
    1/2 oz Light Rum
    1/2 oz Tequila
    1/2 oz Triple Sec
    2 oz Sour Mix or Sweet and Sour Mix
    1 Splash Cola
    Tall glass

    Mix vodka, gin, rum, and tequila in a tall glass. Add triple sec and sour mix. Splash with cola for color . Serve with a lemon garnish.

    Purple Gecko

    Ingredients:

    1 1/2 oz Tequila
    1/2 oz Blue Curacao
    1/2 oz Orange liqueur
    1 oz Cranberry juice
    1 oz Sweet and Sour mix
    1/2 oz Lime Juice

    In a shaker, pour combine ingredients over ice and shake well. Pour into a salt rimmed cocktail or margarita glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

    Cowboy Killer

    Ingredients:

    1 1/4 oz Tequila
    3/4 oz Irish cream
    1/2 oz Butterscotch schnapps
    Half-and-Half

    Pour tequila, Irish cream and schnapps into a cocktail glass. Add ice and half-and-half. Pour into a shaker, shake to mix and pour back into the glass. Garnish with a cherry, and serve.

    Brave Bull

    Ingredients:

    1 1/2 oz Tequila
    1 oz Coffee Liqueur
    1 twist lemon peel

    Pour tequila and coffee liqueur over ice in an cocktail glass and stir. Add twist of lemon and serve.

     

     

  • The Original Margarita

    The Margarita may have been named for film star, Rita Hayworth.The most popular cocktail in the United States, the invention of the Margarita is both controversial and happily celebrated. The taste is timeless and the recipe, simple.

    Tracking down the real history of the Margarita is like trying to keep all its different flavors straight. It can be done, but there’s a lot of them to choose from. It is said to have been created for and named after Rita Hayworth (her real name was Margarita Cansino), singer Margaret “Peggy” Lee, and a nice young woman on her wedding day. Maybe it was created when a bartender didn’t know what a Magnolia was and improvised. Or maybe a bartender took a liking to a girl named Margarita and mixed together her favorites to form the splendid cocktail.

    Margaret “Margarita” Sames

    The most common story, or the most well known story, surrounds a woman named Margaret Sames. In 1948, in Acapulco, Mexico, she was determined to make up her own drink. Her favorite alcohol was tequila, so she decided to mix up a cocktail using it and another favorite of hers, Cointreau. After several unsuccessful attempts, she decided to put the two together with some fresh lime juice.

    Being a tequila lover herself, she knew that salt often went with tequila, so she added salt to the rim of the glass, served the combination with some crushed ice, and the famous mix was born. Soon after her invention, her husband purchased some martini glasses with her name, Margarita, etched in the sides, and the name of the drink was solidified.

    Sames claimed that the popularity of the cocktail was due to her relationships with several rich and famous people in the hotel and bar industries. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen; however, the drink was only seen in bar books starting in 1953, giving it a good five years to gain popularity and giving credence to her claim that she was the inventor of the drink.

    Carlos Herrera

    Another popular story of the Margarita’s origins says that Carlos Herrera, owner of the Rancho La Gloria in Tijuana, Mexico created and named the drink for dancer and sometimes actress Marjorie King in the late 1930’s. King was allergic to all liquor except tequila and since she didn’t like the drink straight, Herrera invented the drink for her.

    margaritaThe Original Margarita

    No matter what the story, one thing is true of all; the original margarita consisted of three main ingredients: fresh lime juice, cointreau or triple sec, and good tequila, and most of them added a little salt to the rim of the glass.

    Ingredients:

    1.5 oz Tequila (Golden or White)
    .5 oz Cointreau or Triple Sec
    .5 oz freshly squeezed Lime Juice
    Coarse Salt (or margarita salt)

    Mix tequila, Cointreau, and Lime Juice with ice in a shaker or blender. Rub rim of a chilled Margarita or Martini glass with a piece of lime. Dip the rim of the glass in a saucer of salt until it is evenly coated. Strain mixture into glass and garnish with a slice of lime.

     

     

  • #POWIDATB: Margarita

    Margarita – Submitted by Drink Matron (Jess) on June 23 while at Brooklyn Stoops