Ingredients
3/4 cup lime juice
3/4 cup tequila
1/2 cup orange-flavor liqueur
1 salt rimmed glasses
4 lime slices or wedges
1 coarse salt
Directions
For Salt-rimmed glasses: Rub rims of glasses (each about 1 cup) with
a lime or lemon wedge, or moist shell of a reamed lime or lemon. Have
COARSE salt on a flat plate. Dip lime-or lemon-moistened glass rim
into salt. Chill untill serving time.
Shake in a covered container or whirl in a blender until slushy: the
lime juice, tequila, liqueur, and ice. Pour into glasses (if mixture
is shaken, you can pour drink thru a strainer and discard ice);
garnish with lime slices. Serves 4.
Servings: 4 servings
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The History of Recipes
We are able to track the history of written recipes way back into the far past, certainly as far back into recorded history as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further. Having said that, sadly, these old cookbooks were just primitive hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to experts in ancient history is a series of stone tablets in Sumerian which describe the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel `wonderful`. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times we have a couple of cookery books which appeared in the fourteenth century - a book called `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. Surprisingly, these books are nothing to do with the spicy food that is popular today, but instead descriptions of the types of food prepared for the upper classes of that time. Over the next few centuries, the wealthy families of Europe competed to serve the most exotic meals, and because of this the best cooks and their recipes increased in prestige. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the 1800s the formal cooking and recipe collections reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, devoted their lives to collecting, trying out, and writing down recipes common in their social group. By the arrival of the twentieth century, recipe books were highly popular mostly as a result of higher levels of literacy, more leisure time and a general increase in wealth. |
We hope you enjoy this Classic Margarita recipe.
