Daiquiri
Rum, lime, perfect balance.
White rum, lime juice and sugar, shaken and served ice-cold straight up. Few ingredients that demand precision: it is the drink bartenders use to test their balance of sweet and sour.
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- Aperitif
- Shaken
- Glass
- Cocktail glass
- Method
- Shaken
- Strength
- Medium
- Time
- 3 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Ice
- No ice
Ingredients
Measures for 1 serving
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White rum
60 ml
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Lime juice
20 ml
-
Sugar
2 barspoons
Proportions
How to make
- Chill a cocktail glass.
- Pour the white rum into the shaker.
- Add the lime juice.
- Add the sugar.
- Stir well to dissolve the sugar.
- Add ice to the shaker.
- Shake hard.
- Strain into the chilled glass.
The story
Origins
ProbableA plausible account, without definitive proof.
The Daiquiri is named after Daiquirí, a mining area on Cuba's south-eastern coast near Santiago. Tradition credits Jennings Cox, an American mining engineer who arrived after the 1898 war, with mixing Bacardi rum, lime, sugar and ice for his men. The evidence rests mostly on later accounts, such as a 1948 letter by his colleague Francesco Pagliuchi and Basil Woon's 1928 book. Similar mixes of rum, lime and sugar had existed long before, such as the Cuban Canchánchara. In 1909 navy medical officer Lucius W. Johnson brought it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, where a plaque marks the event. Its first appearance in a recipe book dates to 1914, in Jacques Straub's "Drinks".
Sources (3)
Taste profile
- Citrus
- 4 out of 5
- Sour
- 4 out of 5
- Fresh
- 3 out of 5
- Sweet
- 2 out of 5