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Viva Villa
1 lime—juice and pulp
1'scant spoonful sugar
1 generous jigger tequila
Dissolve sugar in a little water. Squeeze on the juice of a green
lime and drop in the pulp of half the lime. Next the jigger of
tequila and fill to the brim with finely cracked ice. Jiggle with
the spoon until well frapp^d. A pinch of salt brings on the flavor.
Tequila is a native Mexican liquor distilled from the
Century plant, which also supplies the Mexicanos with
mescal, another powerful potable. The drink gets its
name from the Tequila district where the Century plants
(Agave tequilana) are cultivated for the fermented juices
they yield. Tequila is practically colorless—but don't let
that fool you.
All you need to make this drink perfect is a sombrero
and a senorita. Omit the sombrero if necessary, but don't
leave out the senorita!
Rum Runner
1 jigger rum
1 spoon sugar
2 ponies pineapple juice (unsweetened)
1 lime—juice only
1 dash Peychaud bitters
Dissolve the sugar in the unsweetened pineapple juice. Squeeze
in the juice of a lime (lemon will answer but it doesn't give quite
the flavor a lime does). Then the bitters and muddle well. The
jigger of rum is added. You may stir this drink with several
lumps of ice but shaking improves it and the white of an egg
gives it added smoothness.
During the unlucky thirteen years that Prohibition
darkened the land, the rum runner was the only little
ray of sunshine on an otherwise sombre horizon. What
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