I Saw Cinnamon

I wish I could say that I invented this, but I didn't. I stole the idea from a Mexican restaurant in Park Slope whose name unfortunately escapes me. But anyway, there I sampled these incredible drinks made with cinnamon-infused tequila. I asked the bartender what the name of the tequila was and he told me to go home and stick a bunch of cinnamon sticks in a bottle of tequila and call it whatever I wanted. Captain came up with this version.





Cinnamon Margaritas

3 parts cinnamon tequila
1 part Cointrau
Fresh lime juice
Blood orange juice or a tropical juice mix (You can use regular orange juice, but the ones mixed with mango are better -- and so are those Ceres mixes.)

Fill a highball glass or whiskey tumbler to the top with ice.
3/4 cinnamon tequila
1/4 Cointrau
Dash of fresh lime juice

Strain contents into shaker and give it a good shaky shaky. Pour back into glass with ice to about 1/4 below the rim of the glass. Float juice to the top of the glass.


Cinnamon-infused tequila

1 bottle of white tequila. Do not spend too much money on this.
4-5 cinnamon sticks.

Drop cinnamon sticks into tequila. Close. Shaky shaky. Put in closet for a 5 days to a week. Remove cinnamon sticks —good luck with that— and enjoy!