Classic Margarita on the Rocks

According to an article in Texas Monthly published back in 1974, the Margarita was invented in Juarez, Mexico in 1942 by a bartender named Pancho Morales, and popularized in the 1950s in Los Angeles, California, at a long-running Restaurant Row (La Cienega Blvd.) establishment, Tail O’ the Cock.

We love our Margaritas on the bright side; if you like them sweeter, use a little less lime juice and a little more orange liqueur.

Makes one Margarita; batch instructions follow the recipe.

Ingredients

Salt for rimming the glass

2 ounces tequila (blanco or silver are fine)

3/4 ounce Combier, Grand Marnier, Cointreau or other orange liqueur

3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice (about one medium-sized, medium-juicy lime)

Instructions

1. Spread salt on a small plate, rub the rim of a rocks glass with the cut side of a lime, then dip the rim into the salt. Fill the glass with ice and set aside.

2. Fill a cocktail shaker or jar with ice. Add the tequila, Combier or Grand Marnier and lime juice and shake a long time — until the shaker is so cold you can barely hold it. Strain into the prepared glass and enjoy. If you like it a little sweeter, add more orange liqueur. If you like it tarter, add more lime.

For a batch of four margaritas: Fill a large jar with ice. Add 1 cup tequila, 3 ounces Combier, Grand Marnier or Cointreau and 3 ounces lime juice and shake until the jar feels nearly frozen. Strain into four ice-filled, salt-rimmed rocks glasses and enjoy.

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Classic Margarita on the Rocks

Classic Margarita on the Rocks

Yield: Makes one Margarita; batch instructions follow the recipe
Author: Leslie Brenner
We love our Margaritas on the bright side; if you like them sweeter, use a little less lime juice and a little more orange liqueur.

Ingredients

  • Salt for rimming the glass
  • 2 ounces tequila (blanco or silver are fine)
  • 3/4 ounce Combier, Grand Marnier, Cointreau or other orange liqueur
  • 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice (about one medium-sized, medium-juicy lime)

Instructions

  1. Spread salt on a small plate, rub the rim of a rocks glass with the cut side of a lime, then dip the rim into the salt. Fill the glass with ice and set aside.
  2. Fill a cocktail shaker or jar with ice. Add the tequila, Combier or Grand Marnier and lime juice and shake well a long time — until the shaker is so cold you can barely hold it. Strain into the prepared glass and enjoy. If you like it a little sweeter, add more orange liqueur. If you like it tarter, add more lime.
  3. For a batch of four margaritas: Fill a large jar with ice. Add 1 cup tequila, 3 ounces Combier, Grand Marnier or Cointreau and 3 ounces lime juice and shake until the jar feels nearly frozen. If you like it a little sweeter, add more orange liqueur. If you like it tarter, add more lime. Strain into four ice-filled, salt-rimmed rocks glasses and enjoy.
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