welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark
once again we're going to do another
cocktail out of this little cocktail
book
the floridita cocktails published in
1939
in havana cuba it is a cocktail guide
associated with a very
very famous bar a bar that is credited
with the invention of the daiquiri
and a place that ernest hemingway hung
out all the time
but we're still not going to do the
daiquiri recipe even though there's a
bunch of daiquiri recipes in here
this is the very first or the oldest
cocktail book that i own
that has a tequila recipe in it tequila
cocktail recipes are
very difficult to find in this time
period and tequila in this time period
could be from my reading
horrible so we're going to try a tequila
cocktail using a tequila from today that
i know
tastes great and we're going to start
out with
it says pure tequila
and i think that speaks to the quality
of tequila in this time period
so in this time period there were no
regulations around
what could be called tequila or what had
to be in tequila
and so i think puro tequila is
what you really needed next thing i'm
going to use some
lemon juice actually lime juice
it's interesting again the the spanish
tells you to use lime juice but the
english
tells you to do lemon next in
is some sugar and i'm adding a super
fine sugar so that it
dissolves quickly and then a couple of
dashes of angostura bitters
uh i like bitters and so we
ice the tin
give it a shake
and so i've got a couple of nicki noirs
here cooled down
and we will double strain the cocktail
that's a really nice color
hey jules hi glenn hi friends what have
you got for us today so
we have um a tequila cocktail okay
from 1939 the oldest tequila cocktail
that we have
from a bar in havana cuba smells great
so
yeah that's really refreshing it is
really good like that's a that's like a
so that is hot summer day kind of
refreshing
that pool that as soon as i get a shot
and i can travel again
that i'm going to be sitting beside in
mexico or a beach or a beach or
dramatically
anyway that's my i'm dreaming sorry
this is one ingredient
away from being a margarita huh
right so most margaritas don't have
bitters
they'll have cointreau okay and so
you know you make that substitution and
it becomes one of the most
famous early tequila cocktails and so
i don't know i don't know that it needs
the cointreau i really like that
yeah it's a nice it's a nice uh nice
refreshing flavor
and you play with your tequila change
the tequila use the tequila that you
like
and it's going to be a great drink i can
see this
and it's such a pretty color too thanks
for stopping by
see you again soon
you