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Strawberry Margarita & Pineapple Ice
Summer 2021
There’s little that’s new in a juicy Strawberry Margarita, unless you serve it with a gorgeous salted and peppered pineapple ice cube. The musky flavour of pepper works with both the strawberries in the drink and the pineapple juice in the cube. If you have spherical ice moulds, now available pretty much everywhere, you’re halfway there. If not, don’t sweat it—make a tray of 12 or so regular-size pine apple cubes, and serve each drink with two.
Makes 1 drink
1. Combine 3 hulled strawberries and 1/2 tsp (2 mL) sugar in a cocktail shaker and muddle until sugar is dissolved. Add ice, 1 1/2 oz white tequila, 1 oz lime juice and 1/2 oz triple sec. Shake and fine strain into a margarita or rocks glass over a single Salted Pineapple & Pepper Ice (recipe follows).
Makes 1 drink
SALTED PINEAPPLE & PEPPER ICE
If tropical flavours are your thing (and why wouldn’t they be?), this snow cone cocktail is your hot-weather nirvana. Making the spicy syrup is as simple as reducing ginger beer. Otherwise, just pour, squeeze a lime and serve. Coconut cream is available in cans at most large grocers.
1. Heap a 6-oz paper cup or rocks glass with shaved ice. Top with 1 1/2 oz dark rum. Squeeze juice of half a lime overtop and add a bit more ice (ice will have settled). Top with 1 oz Ginger Beer Syrup (recipe follows) and 1 1/2 oz coconut cream.
Makes 1 drink
GINGER BEER SYRUP
Bring 2 cups (500 mL) ginger beer to a boil in a medium pot. Boil until reduced to 1/2 cup (125 mL). Chill.
Makes 1/2 cup (125 mL)
