Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 large hand ginger, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch coins/chunks
• Bar sugar
• Freshly grated nutmeg
• 2 ounces good quality tequila or reposado (recommended: Cabo Wabo)
• 1 lime, juiced, plus lime wedges for garnish

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Instructions

1. Watch how to make this recipe.
2. Bring sugar and water up to a light simmer and cook until all of the sugar is dissolved. Add ginger and steep for 30 minutes. Pour ginger-simple syrup into blender and puree. Strain out pulp and store in a tightly sealed jar or bottle. Will keep for several weeks in the refrigerator.
3. Pour some bar sugar onto small plate and grate a pinch of nutmeg on top, mix well.
4. Add tequila, lime juice, 5 ounces ginger-simple syrup and ice to cocktail shaker and give it a good shake. Run lime wedge around rim of glass and dip in sugar/nutmeg mixture, add ice and pour in contents of shaker, grate a little nutmeg on top and serve with a wedge of lime.