welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark today we're going
to do a recipe out of
this cocktail book first published in
1937
the cafe royale cocktail book
this is the coronation edition but there
was only one edition this was only
printed in 1937 only one edition printed
and everything that i've read says that
there were only 25
copies of this printed at that time
there has since been a paperback version
or reprint
from the 1980s that you can get online
this is
a cocktail book that i find very
interesting because
1937 it's published in london
it has a lot of vodka recipes and a lot
of tequila recipes in it
and it kind of shows how bartenders in
london or england because this is a
compilation of a bunch of different
bartenders work
we're willing to embrace both tequila
and vodka and
sort of figure out how to put it into
cocktails
so the cocktail we're going to do today
is called the picador and
i'm going to go out on a limb and say
that this is the very first margarita
it's not called a margarita but it is a
margarita it follows the classic
margarita
components it follows the classic
margarita ratios but a lot of people say
it's not a margarita because it's called
a picador
and other people say it's not a
margarita because it lets you choose
between
lemon or lime so today we're going to
make it both ways with lemon
and lime over here on this side we're
going to do lime juice first
so lime juice
this one is lemon
they both get cointreau
and they both get tequila
and they both get ice
and then a shake
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okay i've got a couple of cocktail
glasses that are already iced
and first up
is the lime version
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and this is the lemon version hey glenn
hi friends hey jules
so um we're making the pica door
and it gives you an option between lemon
or lime okay so i've done both ways
lime is towards you okay got it
and some say including me
that the picador is in fact the origin
of the margarita okay that's interesting
yes the tequila cocktail from the
floridita
cocktail book from cuba it was tequila
and lime juice a little bit of sugar and
bitters
yeah so no cointreau it was really good
it was really like a really good one
so lem lime and lemon
okay lime and lemon got it ready ready
i'm digging that okay
okay
yeah do you have a favorite i have a
favorite yeah
it's not that one no it's not that one
at all that has some weird
kind of second flavor that just kind of
jumps at you and
so the lemon in this case is i find very
balanced
like it's come together it's a very nice
pleasant this has an aftertaste that
just does not work for me
but i would say that if you were if i
was going to order myself a drink
it would have been that recipe be that
recipe yeah i like that one better
without the coin
now that being said could be switch out
the tequila
and the lime could work yeah so don't
knock it yet
but i'm i'm looking at this and saying
definitely
the origin of the margarita yeah this
one tastes more
like a margarita yeah um
and so the earliest origin story for
margarita happens in like 1938 in
in tijuana tijuana yep
so the idea is a very famous actress or
dancer
shows up at the bar who's allergic to
everything but tequila which
you know how does that work and the
bartender mixes her this drink on the
spot and says it's called margarita
after named after her i'm going to say
she was famous she traveled a lot she
had been in england
had it somewhere else had it somewhere
else rolled up at the bar and said you
know what i had this great cocktail
i don't remember if it had lemon or lime
in it it had tequila
it may have taken the bartender a few
attempts to get the version of it right
and that's and that is that's it that's
versioning that is
building on something that already
exists playing that broken telephone
with a customer and saying
so it is a bit of an innovation and then
you're trying you're adding a little
tweak
he added a salt room which is missing
from this one
but is it the original i don't know can
you build all of your
you know you have to kind of build on
others right someone's always done it
before
someone's always done it before you and
and then you look at the origin stories
that are listed online for the margarita
and some of them extend
into the late 50s and early 1960s people
saying oh i invented that
which is where i bring up my always
thing i invented putting mcdonald's
french fries
in the lid of the thing and i know that
i've said that on the show before but i
invented that
and you know deal with it i laugh every
time he says it
thanks for stopping by see you again
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you