Mojito
Mint, lime, Cuban soul.
Fresh mint muddled with sugar and lime, white Cuban rum and soda over plenty of ice. Thirst-quenching and aromatic, it is the quintessential summer long drink, with mint leading from first sip to last.
- IBA · Contemporary Classics
- Long drink
- Muddled
- Glass
- Highball glass
- Method
- Muddled
- Strength
- Light
- Time
- 4 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Ice
- Crushed
Ingredients
Measures for 1 serving
-
Mint
6 sprigs
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White cane sugar
2 tsp
-
Lime juice
20 ml
-
Soda water
top up
-
White rum
45 ml
Garnish
- Mint sprig
- Lime slice
Proportions
How to make
- Place the mint in the glass.
- Add the sugar.
- Pour the lime juice.
- Gently muddle the mint with sugar and lime.
- Add a splash of soda water.
- Fill the glass with ice.
- Pour the rum.
- Top with soda water.
- Stir lightly.
- Garnish with mint and a lime slice.
The story
Origins
LegendA story passed down, not confirmed by the sources.
The Mojito has old Cuban roots. Its ancestor is said to be the Draque, a mix of aguardiente, sugar, lime and mint that tradition links to privateer Francis Drake's visit off Havana in 1586; in 1833 writer Ramón de Paula described drinking a 'Drake' daily during a cholera epidemic. According to a 1940 account, the drink became the Mojito when rum replaced aguardiente. The first printed recipes appeared in Cuba in 1927 and 1929, as 'Mojo Criollo' and 'Mojo de Ron'; the modern name appears on the menu of Havana's Sloppy Joe's for the 1931-32 season. La Bodeguita del Medio and the note attributed to Hemingway belong to legend.
Sources (3)
Taste profile
- Fresh
- 5 out of 5
- Citrus
- 4 out of 5
- Sweet
- 3 out of 5
- Herbal
- 3 out of 5
- Bubbly
- 2 out of 5