Recipe - Merry Christmas Margaritas

1 One fourth cup Cranberry juice cocktail
One half cup Sugar
1 One half cup (6 oz) fresh or frozen
cranberries; rinsed
Three fourths cup Lime juice
Three fourths cup Tequila
One half cup Orange flavor liqueur
3 cup Coarsley crushed ice

Pour One fourth cup of the cranberry juice into a shallow bowl. Pour 3 tablespoons
sugar into a flat plate. Dip the rims of 4 to 6 widemouthed glasses (6 to 8
ounce size, suitable for margaritas) into juice, then into sugar. Set the
glasses aside. Reserve 12 cranberries. In a blender, whirl until smooth and
slushy the remaining cranberries, cranberry juice, sugar, lime juice,
tequila, orange liqueur, and ice. If necessary, blend in 2 batches, then
mix. Fill glasses; garnish by floating 3 reserved cranberries (grouped
together) in the center of each glass. Serves 4 to 6. Sunset Magazine
Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "M. Hicks" nitro_ii@email.msn.com on Feb 5,
1998