Daiquiri
The Daiquiri is a classic cocktail is based on white rum The short drink belongs to the large group of Sours and was named after the Cuban settlement Daiquiri, which is about 22 km from Santiago de Cuba.
History
The fact that the first daiquiri, how often to read is actually mixed until about 1900 by two American mining engineers in the small Cuban town of Daiquiri, is unlikely - that the ingredients were rum, lime and sugar already in the region much at this time to widespread. In any case made Bar El Floridita in Havana (Cuba), where the bartender Constantino Ribalaigua Vert served the drink its famous guest Ernest Hemingway For the great popularity of the daiquiri. Hemingway drank because of diabetes the daiquiri without sugar. Even today, known as " Papa Doble ". Also on countless Americans the Daiquiri first became popular, the dodging to drink to Cuba during Prohibition in the United States (1919-1933 ).
Preparation
The Daiquiri is in structure to a typical sour, sugar syrup consisting of white, preferably Cuban rum as a base, freshly squeezed lime juice and (pipe ). A typical mixing ratio of these ingredients is 5:3:2; the formulation of the International Bartenders Association (IBA ) requires 4.5 cl Rum 2.5 cl 1.5 cl lime juice and sugar syrup; the standard work Cocktailian proposes 6 cl rum 3 cl lime juice and 2 cl sugar syrup (2:1). The optimum in a single case mix depends, as with any Sour, of the concrete used spirits brand, the sweetness of the sugar syrup, the acidity of the lime and the personal taste - Hemingway enjoyed his favorite cocktail for example, preferably in the variant Papa Doble with twice as much rum and without sugar. In any case, a daiquiri is shaken with ice in a cocktail shaker and then strained through a strainer, and possibly even "double" (ie in addition through a tea strainer ) into a chilled cocktail glass ( Coupette ) and " straight up", ie without ice in glass served.
There are many variations Daiquiri Frozen daiquiris are not shaken in a shaker, but with crushed ice ( crushed ice ) in the blender ( " Blender " ) prepared so that they almost freeze and get a creamy, sorbet - like consistency. Popular are daiquiris, containing instead of sugar syrup fruit puree and / or fruit syrup, for example: mango daiquiri, strawberry daiquiri or Banana Daiquiri. In Basil Daiquiri some basil leaves are shaken with and then double strained by an additional strainer.
Another variation is the ( Daiquiri ) El Floridita, Daiquiri as No. 3, Hemingway Daiquiri or Hemingway Special -known and under the latter designation also an official cocktail of the IBA, which the recipe with 6 cl Rum 1.5 cl per maraschino liqueur indicates ( instead of sugar syrup) and lime juice, and 4 oz grapefruit juice; in Cocktailian is 6 cl rum, 1 oz Maraschino ( Luxardo ) and sugar syrup ( 2:1 ), 2 cl lime juice and 3 oz pink grapefruit juice.