Not to be confused with Pizza Margherita. Shake and raspberry lime tequila cocktail into a chilled cocktail glass. A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass.
The history of the margarita is one of folklore due to its numerous origin stories. 1937 Cafe Royal Cocktail Book contains a recipe for a Picador using the same concentrations of tequila, triple sec and lime juice as a margarita. According to Jose Cuervo, the cocktail was invented in 1938 by a bartender in honor of Mexican showgirl Rita de la Rosa. Hussong’s Cantina also claims to have been the site of the margarita’s creation in Ensenada, Baja California, in 1941. There are also claims that the margarita was first mixed in Juárez, Chihuahua at Tommy’s Place Bar on July 4, 1942 by Francisco “Pancho” Morales. Morales later left bartending in Mexico to become a US citizen, where he worked as a milkman for 25 years. Others say the inventor was Dallas socialite Margarita Sames, when she concocted the drink for her guests at her Acapulco, Guerrero vacation home in 1948.
Tommy Hilton reportedly attended, bringing the drink back to the Hilton chain of hotels. He supposedly named it after the Spanish version of her name, Margarita. The first known publication of a margarita recipe was in the December 1953 issue of Esquire, with a recipe calling for an ounce of tequila, a dash of triple sec and the juice of half a lime or lemon. A recipe for a tequila-based cocktail first appeared in the 1930 book My New Cocktail Book by G. A later, certainly false, story is that the margarita was invented in October 1961, at a party in Houston, Texas, by party goer Robert James “Rusty” Thomson while acting as bartender.
He concocted a mixture of equal parts tequila, Controy orange liqueur, lime, and crushed ice in a salt-rimmed glass. Margaritas come in a variety of flavors and colors. 10:4:3, that is tequila:triple sec:fresh lime juice. Apple-cinnamon tequila, triple sec, cranberry juice, fresh lime juice, and an apple wedge or lemon twist for garnish combine to form the Cranberry Margarita With Apple-Cinnamon Tequila, a fall seasonal drink. Freshly squeezed lime juice is the key ingredient.
The most common lime in the United States is the thick-skinned Persian lime. These are small, thin-skinned limes and have more tart and an often bitter flavor compared to Persian limes. The frozen margarita is a margarita served as an ice slush, similar to other tropical-inspired frozen mixed drinks like the hurricane or piña colada. A lemonade or limeade margarita can be quickly whipped up by using frozen lemonade or limeade concentrate in place of lime juice.
Alternate fruits and juice mixtures can also be used in a margarita. Coconut cream, coconut milk, and coconut water can also be added to margaritas, e. Corona beer or other light-flavored beer poured upside down into a margarita on the rocks. One recipe uses fresh lime juice, orange juice, and agave nectar. Another recipe uses only tequila and some concentrated lime juice. A margarita with vodka substituted for tequila is a kamikaze.
Rub the rim of a stem glass with rind of lemon or lime, spin in salt—pour, and sip. It was further popularized by the 1977 song “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett, and in 2004 it was described as “the most popular mixed drink in America”. The margarita may be popular because, in addition to sweet and sour flavors, it includes salt. Everything You Need To Know About The Margarita”. I’ll Have a Mystery on the Rocks with Salt”. Danny Herrera, Inventor of Margarita, Dies at Age 90″. Mastering the margarita: Tequila aside, even experts can’t agree on what goes into the legendary cocktail”.
Created by hand zesting oranges and soaking them in our classic vodka . This vodka features an organic wheat spirit blended with Nantucket’s famously pure water. For the Hurricane Rum we never use rum younger than 4 years old. Peach sorbet and aromatic toffee apples on the nose. Here are the best summer cocktails to try, from classic cocktails to frozen drinks to mixers with gin and vodka. Here are the best summer cocktails, from classics to frozen drinks to mixers with gin and vodka. Here are all the best summer cocktails to try!
We’ve got classics like the minty Mojito and the tangy margarita, and frozen drinks like daiquiris and pina coladas. There’s also gin and vodka cocktails, and fun fruity spins like watermelon cocktails and peach margaritas. Really: we want to drink them all. Go to Summer Vodka Cocktails, Summer Gin Cocktails or Summer Rum Cocktails.