Margarita cocktail
The margarita is a cocktail made up of tequila, triple sec and lime or lemon juice. It is often served with salt on the rim of the glass. The drink is served by shaking the ice (on the rocks), mixed with ice (frozen margarita), or without ice (up). Although it has become acceptable to serve a margarita in a wide variety of glass containers, ranging from cocktails and wine glasses to even large schooners, the drink is traditionally served in the margarita glass of the same name, a staggered diameter variant of a glass cocktail or champagne glass, something like an inverted hat.
Variations
Flavored spirits
In addition to the Cointreau, other orange-flavored liqueurs are used such as the Grand Marnier or other brands of triple sec or Curaçao azul (which produces the blue margarita). When sweet fruit juices are added to the margarita, orange juice is often reduced or eliminated entirely. In addition to the orange-flavored liqueurs, there are other liqueurs that can be added to the cocktail from time to time, such as raspberry or melon. Other flavors include pineapple and watermelon.
Fresh lime juice
Freshly squeezed lime juice is the key ingredient. The most common variety in the United States is the thick-skinned Persian lime. However, daisies in Mexico are generally made with acid lime, which are called "lemons" in Mexico (and vice versa, by the way). These are small, thin-skinned, and more acidic compared to Persian files. Daisies made with Persian lime have a milder flavor, especially when using Meyer files.
Frozen margarita
In addition to being served agitated and "up" like other cocktails, margaritas can also be served as a mixed ice slushie, similar to other tropical-inspired drinks like Hurricane or Pina Colada. This variant is known as a "frozen" margarita. Ingredients can be poured onto crushed ice in a kitchen or industrial blender. A high amount of frozen margarita based on a "house recipe" can be kept in a machine designed specifically for that purpose (but also commonly used to serve non-alcoholic beverages). Such a machine is usually a cylinder leading to a pour spout that is kept below freezing temperature, but with an impeller inside the cylinder that constantly agitates the mixture so that it never freezes, dispensing drinks with a textured sleet. The first frozen margarita machine was invented on May 11, 1971 in Dallas by restaurateur Mariano Martínez. The machine was originally a soft ice cream machine and is now housed in the Smithsonian National Museum of History.1
Other fruits
Alternative fruits and juice mixes can also be used in a margarita. Fruits like mango, peach, strawberry, banana, cantaloupe, or raspberry are suitable for creating this drink. Many recipes call for a splash of orange juice. Today, the margarita can be prepared in many different ways. When the word "margarita" is used by itself, it usually refers to the one made with salt and lemon juice, but when other juices are used, the fruits are typically added as adjectives to the name, such as the raspberry margarita. Other varieties of margarita include fruit, top shelf margarita, and virgin margarita.
Crown
Some bars and restaurants serve a "Coronarita", which is a beer cocktail consisting of a bottle of Corona turned upside down to drain on a margarita.
History
One version says that in 1938, Carlos "Anny" Herrera, at his restaurant in Rancho La Gloria, halfway between Tijuana and Rosarito, devised it for the client and former dancer Ziegfeld Marjorie King, who was allergic to many spirits, but not to tequila.2 This story was told by Herrera and also by the barman Alberto Hernández, known for the popularization of the Margarita in San Diego after 1947, at the La Plaza restaurant in La Jolla. 3 Hernández claimed that the owner of La Plaza, Morris Locke, knew about Herrera and visited Mexico frequently.
Another of the earliest stories about the Margarita is that it was invented in Tehuacán Puebla, Mexico, in 1936. The manager of the Hotel Garci-Crespo (Danny Negrete) decided to create a drink for his girlfriend who liked salt so much, that the He drank with everything he drank. One fine day Danny frosted the edge of his glass with salt and combined tequila, cointreau and lemon juice. Then he stirred the concoction and filled his girlfriend's glass. That girl tried the first Margarita in history.
A commonly accepted story about the origin of the Margarita is that it was invented in October 1941, in the Hussong Cantina, in Ensenada, Mexico, by the bartender Don Carlos Orozco. One afternoon, Margarita Henkel, the daughter of the then German ambassador, who lived with her husband Roy Parodi at Rancho Hamilton, near the city and who was a regular visitor to the canteen, arrived at the same and Don Carlos, who had been experiencing with the drinks, he offered her one. The cocktail consisted of equal parts tequila, Mexican orange liqueur called Controy (known as Naranja in the United States) and lemon, mixed and served with ice in a glass with frosty salt. At the same time that he was the first to taste the drink, Don Carlos decided to name it and the "Margarita" was born.4 Another ingredient used by this bartender was damiana liquor, a plant endemic to the region.5
A very popular version is that the daisy was invented in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Legend has it that the Margarita cocktail was invented in Ciudad Juárez by the barman Lorenzo Hernández who worked for more than 50 years at the Kentucky Bar in Ciudad Juárez México. The Margarita cocktail is a rich mixture of Tequila, Cointreau (orange liqueur) and lemon juice that is served in a frosty glass with salt on the edges, as well as with frappe or cubed ice, depending on where you drink it.
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua along with Ensenada and Tijuana from the state of Baja California in Mexico, dispute with Beverly Hills, California to be the cradle of the drink.
However, the history that accompanies the drink in Ciudad Juárez, gives greater truth and weight in the debate, in which it is only clear that it was named in honor of a lady with that name. According to Peña Jr., Lorenzo Hernández in 1942, created the drink at the request of a regular customer who wanted to give his wife a special gift, a drink that had tequila and lemon as ingredients.
"When the woman asked Don Lorenzo the name of the drink, he replied, 'Her name is Margarita,'" and the rest is history.
... "This is where the margarita from the Kentucky Club of Ciudad Juárez came from for the world and the drink is still being sold and is internationally famous," added Delgado manager .... (Kentucky bar opened in 1920 to date 2020 still open to the public).
There are also those who allege that the Margarita was first mixed in the El Paso Juárez area at the Tommy Place Bar on July 4, 1942, by Francisco "Pancho" Morales. Morales later left the cocktail bar in Mexico to become a U.S. citizen, where he worked as a milkman for 25 years. Mexico's official news agency Notimex and many other experts have said Morales makes the strongest claim to have invented the margarita.6 Others say the inventor was the socialite Margarita Sames, when she invented the drink for her guests at her Acapulco vacation home in 1948. Tommy Hilton reportedly attended on that occasion, bringing the drink into the Hilton hotel chain.7 However, Jose Cuervo was already promoting ad campaigns for margarita three years earlier, in 1945, with the motto, "Margarita: it is more than a woman's name." According to José Cuervo, the cocktail was invented in 1938 by a bartender in honor of the Mexican showgirl Rita de la Rosa.8
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