Margarita

Margarita
Adapted from Cocktail Codex by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan

I don't salt the rim of my glass, but if you want to salt yours, place about ¼ cup of kosher salt in a plate. Use a wedge of lime to rim the glass then tilt the glass at an angle, and turn to coat the outer rim all around. If you just dip the whole top of the glass in, the salt gets in your glass, and then into your drink.

For One Drink

½ lime
2 ounces of tequila, blanco or reposado - your choice (Blanco is the most usual.)
3/4 ounce Mathilde Orange XO (what I use) or Cointreau
1/4 ounce simply syrup
ice

Juice the lime half directly into shaker. Add the tequila and the orange liqueur to the shaker along with some ice cubes. Shake well until the drink is cold and pour into a glass over ice.

then pour the contents into a glass. I use a large wine glass. Put a few ice cubes in your glass along with half of the lime rind you squeezed into the drink, and go to town. Repeat as desired.

When I'm making two drinks, I get everything ready for the second drink in a little carafe.

That way when I pour the first drink from the shaker, I can add the ingredients for the second drink to the shaker right away without the ice cubes in the shaker having time to melt and dilute the drink.

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