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DRINKS FEATURES
FEATURED COCKTAIL
DAIQUIRI
"Daiquiri" is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice.
There are several versions of it, but the properly titled "Natural Daiquiri" consists of eight parts light rum, two parts freshly squeezed lime juice, one part sugar syrup and two parts mineral water (optional).
“Daiquiri” is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, as well as an iron mine in that area. The cocktail was invented around 1905 by a group of American mining engineers in a bar named Venus in Santiago, twenty or so miles east of the mine. Among the engineers present was Jennings Cox, general manager of the Spanish American Iron Co. Rumour has it that that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining an American guest, but in fact the drink evolved naturally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar in that area.
Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice, and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar, followed by two or three ounces of rum. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon.
Later the Daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled flute glass. Nowadays, we shake all the ingredients together with ice and fine strain into a chilled martini glass.
The Daiquiri was one of the favourite drinks of the hard-drinking Nobel prize winning writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway, however, was a renowned diabetic, which led to the invention of the "Hemingway Daiquiri" which substitutes grapefruit juice for sugar and adds a dash of Maraschino liqueur.
Daiquiris are classically shaken and served straight up or on the rocks, or can be frozen and served in a blended version. |
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