Mexican Firing Squad Recipe
Tequila, lime and grenadine with a heavy hand of Angostura — a tart, ruby-tinted sour with more spice than its colour suggests.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 18%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Blanco tequila60 ml (2 oz)
- Fresh lime juice22.5 ml (0.8 oz)
- Grenadine22.5 ml (0.8 oz)
- Angostura bitters5 dash
How to Make It
- Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
- Shake hard until well chilled.
- Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
- Garnish with a lime wheel.
Garnish
Lime wheel
The Story
Recorded by the travelling writer Charles H. Baker Jr., who drank it at La Cucaracha bar in Mexico City in 1937 and printed it in The Gentleman's Companion two years later.
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