Recipe

2oz tequila

1/2 oz lime cordial

1/2 oz grapefruit cordial

Add ingredients to a mixing glass. Add Ice. Stir for 20-30 seconds. Serve up in a chilled Nick and Nora. Garnish not necessary

Background

I recently made Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s lime cordial and absolutely fell in love. A gin gimlet, what a damn fine, easy to make cocktail. It made me to raise two questions:

1) What other cordials should I make?

2) What other base spirits should I play with?

Grapefruit. Tequila. Paloma. I have always loved tequila and no matter how hard I try, Paloma’s just have never done it for me. So I went ahead and made my cordials and whipped this up to great success. I haven’t seen anything quite like this posted here or in a quick Google search so wanted to share!

Lime Cordial - Recipe courtesy of jeffreymorgenthaler.com

250g sugar

8 oz/240 ml hot water

1½ oz/45 ml fresh lime juice (measured by volume)

8 grams freshly grated lime peel (or 1½ oz/45 ml measured by volume)

25 grams citric acid (1 oz/30 ml measured by volume)

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender.

Blend on medium speed for 30 seconds.

Strain with a fine strainer.

Bottle and refrigerate.

Grapefruit Cordial

260g sugar

200g hot water

120g fresh grapefruit juice

48 grams freshly peeled grapefruit peel

20 grams citric acid

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender.

Blend on medium speed for 30 seconds.

Strain with a fine strainer.

Bottle and refrigerate.

(I made the grapefruit recipe based on the lime recipe, using two large grapefruit and adjusting to taste. It likely needs some refinement but even still, left nothing to be desired in this cocktail)