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Cocktail Recipes

Cuba Libre

The rum and Coke is very popular; It is probably the world’s second most popular alcoholic drink. Its popularity derives from the ubiquity and low cost of the main ingredients, and the fact that it is very easy to make. As it can be made with any quantity or style of rum, it is simple to prepare and difficult to ruin.

The Cuba Libre a historically important drink, it is “a potent symbol of a changing world order – the marriage of rum, lubricant of the old colonial empires, and Coca-Cola, icon of modern American global capitalism”. Additionally, both rum and Coca-Cola are made from Caribbean ingredients, and became global commodities through European and American commerce. The drink “seems to reflect perfectly the historical elements of the modern world”.

INGREDIENTS:
1 1/4 oz – White Rum
1/4 oz – Lime Juice
3 oz – Cola
Ice cubes

INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill the glass collin with ice, pour all the ingredients and finally fill the glass with cola. Decorate with a piece of lime.

Strawberry Daiquiri

Daiquirí is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba, and is a word of Taíno origin. 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

The drink became popular in the 1940s. World War II rationing made whiskey and vodka hard to come by, yet because of U.S. Good Neighbor policy at the time, rum was easily obtainable because the policy opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean. The Good Neighbor policy, helped make Latin America fashionable. Consequently, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the choice of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US.

A wide variety of alcoholic mixed drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called frozen daiquirí.

INGREDIENTS:
2 oz Black Cat Rum
1/2 oz Triple Sec
6 Strawberries
1 oz Lime Juice
1/2 tsp Sugar
250 ml crushed ice

INSTRUCTIONS:
Combine all ingredients in a blender with the crushed ice. Blend well.
Serve in a Margarita Glass.

Cape Codder

A Cape Cod is made with vodka and cranberry juice, and may be garnished with a lime wedge. Proportions vary, with sources giving a recommended vodka-to-juice ratio of 1/4, 1/2 and 1/1.5, while other sources do not recommend precise proportions. Some sources recommend lime juice instead of a lime wedge garnish.

This drink was conceived in 1945 by the Ocean Spray cranberry grower’s cooperative under the name “Red Devil” in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The “Cape Codder” name dates from the early 1960’s.

INGREDIENTS:
2 oz Vodka
5 oz Cranberry Juice
1 Lime Wedge

INSTRUCTIONS:
Add the Vodka and Cranberry Juice to a HighBall glass filled with ice. Mix and garnish with lime wedge.