My lime tree has been producing a glut of limes that my sister and I don’t have enough friends to give them all away to. So we have been forced to drink margaritas on a fairly tight rotation. I have been making them using my rum-based cumquat liqueur for the triple sec.
This evening, just to make sure, I made the second batch using the standard Cointreau. We had to had another round with cumquat rum to be certain, but my sister and I are agreed that margaritas are more to our taste when made with Brett’s Cumquat Rum. Cointreau carries too much, and overwhelms the tequila.
Margarita: 5 parts tequila, 2 parts Brett’s cumquat rum, 2 parts fresh lime juice. Shake with ice until very cold, strain into two glasses rimmed with salt.
