Spruce Margarita Recipe -

There’s a lot of different wild cocktails you could make – in fact you could write a book on it – however, this Spruce Margarita Recipe is one of my favourites.

The savoury notes of a margs just suit wild ingredients perfectly.

The Fresh spruce shoots are looking best around April.

Find our Spruce Foraging Guide here

Here’s a guide with help to discover the difference between pine, spruce and firs

Be careful of Yew…

It’s worth making the note here that there’s one conifer you need to be vary aware of when out picking any tree that has needles, and that is one called Yew, Yew is deadly toxic.

The taxines contained in the tree are used in chemotherapy for a wide range of cancers, these are still commercially collected at present, in the incorrect doses they are lethal.

Click here for our identification guide on Yew

Ingredients:

per person

40ml tequila (2 shots)
20ml triple sec (1 shot or other orange liquior)
Lime Juice (half a shot – or lemon juice)
40ml Douglas Fir syrup
Ice

If you wish to make it into a long drink

100ml soda water or tonic
Crushed ice

Method:

In a shaker fill it with ice and add the tequila, triple sec, lime juice and syrup
Shake like a mad man until nicely chilled
Pour out for a sophisticated drink