The Spirits #169: The Everyday Daiquiri
Practise is the path to perfection
I extended our little summer sale by the way. That’s 30% for a year of the Spirits. Sign up or prepare for a Daiquiriless void! It’s as simple as that:
~ THE DAIQUIRI ~
50ml light rum
15ml lime juice
10ml raw cane sugar syrup (2 : 1)
Freeze you glass. Put all the liquids in the shaker. Fill halfway with ice. Shake about 32 times, i.e. quite a lot. Now fine-strain into an extremely cold glass. Lime garnish but it’s not essential.
Some Daiquiri notes:
1) This is the ‘base’ Daiquiri recipe. It’s the one I seek to perfect. If you’d like some variants, the links are below. If you want to get really geeky about ratios, I’ll see you below the lime. I mean line.
2) “Is that cocktail?” asked my Aubrey (4) when he saw me snapping the aforepictured. Yes, I replied. “It looks reallllly good,” he said. “Drink a lot of it!”
FIVE ALTERNATIVE DAIQUIRIS:
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