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Mexican Firing Squad Special

Category: SourMood: Beyond the Starter Set

Adapted from The Gentleman's Companion (1939)

Lowball

Ingredients

  • 60ml tequila blanco
  • 22.5ml lime juice
  • 22.5ml grenadine
  • 2 - 4 dashes Angostura bitters
  • club soda, for topping off (optional)
No. of Servings:
1

Garnish

Pineapple and orange wedges, and Maraschino cherry

Instructions

For the regular version:

  1. Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.

  2. Shake until chilled.

  3. Strain into a lowball glass with crushed ice.

  4. Top with more crushed ice and garnish with a pineapple and orange wedges, and a Maraschino cherry.

With Club Soda:

  1. Add all ingredients except for the club soda to a shaker with ice.

  2. Shake until chilled.

  3. Strain into a highball glass with ice.

  4. Top with club soda and garnish with a pineapple and orange wedges, and a Maraschino cherry.

Hints

  1. Given that this cocktail contains a decent amount of grenadine, it's important you use one of good quality. Grenadine is easy to make yourself, and you can avoid juicing by buying bottles of unsweetened pomegranate juice instead!

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Trivia

  1. Discovered in 1937 by Charles H. Baker while on a trip to Mexico City. As he tells it in his book, The Gentleman's Companion (1939), Baker and his partner decided to ditch their chaperons one night and stumbled upon a bar named La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), which served this drink.

  2. There's a few old La Cucaracha menus on sale but they do not feature the Mexican Firing Squad. The other cocktails do, however, feature a lot of similar ingredients, which points to some of its influences.

Tags

TartRefreshingEasy to drinkEasyCrowd pleaser1930sSourTequilaTequila blancoLime juiceGrenadineAngostura bittersClub soda