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Drink · 4 min · 1 glass

Margarita

Tequila, orange liqueur, fresh lime — nothing from a bottle marked mix. Salt half the rim so you can choose per sip.

The sheet · 1 glass · 4 min

easy

Why tonight. Tequila, orange liqueur, fresh lime — nothing from a bottle marked mix. Salt half the rim so you can choose per sip.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • tequila
  • cointreau
  • lime

Method

  1. 2 oz blanco tequila, ¾ oz Cointreau, ¾ oz lime. Shake hard with ice until the tin frosts.
  2. Strain over fresh ice, or up. Salt half the rim so whoever is drinking gets to choose.
  3. Cointreau is both the sweetener and the orange, so do not add syrup as well unless the limes were mean.
  4. Fresh lime only. Three ingredients means bottled juice is obvious immediately, and it is the reason most margaritas are bad.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

tequila
Agave, which brings a vegetal, peppery edge no other spirit has.
cointreau
Clean bitter orange with real sweetness behind it, so it does two jobs in a sour and lets you use less syrup.
lime
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

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