as promised via twitter:
Serves 6:
7 limes
1 blood orange
4 mandarin oranges (medium sized)
1 pink grapefruit
8 fl.oz. Patron reposado
6 fl.oz. Cointreau (or Patron Citronge or any decent triple sec)
rock salt
table salt
3 ice trays of cubes
- Put six cocktail glasses in the freezer to chill.
- Reserve one of the limes.
- Juice the rest of the citrus, mix, stir (you need about 9-10 oz. of juice. If significantly more or less, adjust the tequila and liqueur proportionately).
- Add the tequila and liqueur, stir, put in refrigerator to chill/stay cool.
- Crush the ice cubes.
- Pile the rock salt near the edge of a circular plate.
- Put the table salt on top of the rock salt.
- Slide the one lime into at least seven wedges, notch the wedges with a knife.
- Remove the glasses from the freezer.
- Wet the rim of each glass with one of the lime wedges.
- Turn a glass upside down and swipe its rim through the salt pile, repeating for each glass.
- Put a large mound of crushed ice in each glass.
- Pour the margarita mixture over the ice.
- Garnish each rim with a lime wedge and serve.
