Cocktail of the Weekend: Daiquiri

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 "...The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer, named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba at the time of the Spanish–American War. It is also possible that William A. Chanler, a US congressman who purchased the Santiago iron mines in 1902, introduced the daiquiri to clubs in New York in that year.

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. Two or three ounces of white rum completed the mixture. 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 coupe glass..." ~ Source

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 Frozen daiquiri

 
A wide variety of alcoholic mixed drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called frozen daiquirí. These drinks can also be combined and poured from a blender, eliminating the need for manual pulverization and producing a texture similar to a smoothie. On larger scales, such drinks are often commercially made in larger machines, and come in a wide variety of flavors made with various alcohol or liquors. Another way to create a frozen daiquiri (mostly fruit-flavored variants) is by using frozen limeade, providing the required texture, sweetness and sourness all at once.

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Variations on the frozen daiquiri include:

    - the old rose daiquiri, which features strawberry syrup and rum along with two teaspoons of sugar and lime juice
    - the daiquiri mulata featuring rum and coffee liqueur..." ~ Source

Recipe of Daiquiri Cocktail
 

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 What You'll Need

•     1 1/2 ounces light rum
•     3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
•     1/4 ounce simple syrup

How to Make It

•     Pour the light rum, lime juice and sugar syrup into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
•     Shake well.
•     Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. ~ Source

Watch the video below to make your own daiquiri cocktail:

And if you are not in the mood of making your own, we are expecting you at our Garden this weekend to prepare for you some really delicious daiquiries!

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