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