Ingredients:
2 oz rum
1/2 lime juice
1 tsp castor sugar
Preparation:
Mix in shaker filled with ice cubes. Strain into glass and serve.
History:
The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area, and it is a word of Taíno origin. The cocktail was invented about 1905 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General Manager of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C. Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C. Merritt Holmes and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist that that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar.
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 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 flute glass. An article in the March 14, 1937 edition of the Miami Herald as well as private correspondence of J.F. Linthicum confirm the recipe and early history.
Consumption of the drink remained localized until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and drinkers of the daiquiri increased over the space of a few decades. The daiquiri was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and president John F. Kennedy.
The drink became incredibly popular in the 1940s. Wartime rationing made whiskey, vodka, etc, hard to come by, yet because of Roosevelt's 'Good Neighbor Policy' (which opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean), rum became highly attainable. The Good Neighbor Policy (also known as 'The Pan-American program'), helped make Latin America seem hip, hot and fashionable. As a consequence, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the domain of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the Daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US.
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Daiquiri
Bellini
Ingredients:
2 oz peach puree
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
1 oz peach schnapps
3 oz chilled, dry Champagne
1/2 cup crushed ice
Preparation:
Pour peach puree into chilled flute, add gently sparkling wine. Stir gently.
History:
A Bellini is a simple cocktail that originated in Italy. As many other cocktails, this one was invented in Harry's Bar in Venice as well. In 1948 Giuseppi Cipriani created the Bellini which was reportedly inspired by the 15th-century Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini. Giuseppi’s recipe took a long time tradition of marinating fresh peaches in wine to a new level. By mixing fresh white peach puree and champagne, Giuseppi had created a new sensation. Due to the drinks' popularity, Harry’s Bar soon offered the drink year round. An entrepreneurial fellow Frenchman made his fortune by setting up a business that ship fresh white peach purée to both Harry's Bars in Venice and New York.
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Bloody Mary
Ingredients:
2 oz vodka
5 oz tomato juice
1/2 oz lemon juice
2-3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1-2 dashes Tabasco sauce
1 pinc salt
1 pinc black pepper
Preparation:
Add dashes of Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco , salt and pepper into highball glass, then pour all ingredients into highball with ice cubes. Stir gently. Garnish with Celery Salt and lemon wedge (optional).
History:
The origin of the Bloody Mary is somewhat disputed. One claim states that it was originally created by George Jessel around 1939. Lucius Beebe, in his gossip column "This New York" (New York Herald Tribune, December 2, 1939, page 9), printed what is believed to be the first reference to this drink, along with the original recipe: "George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka
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Alien Sky
Ingredients:
1 oz White Rum
1 oz Cherry Brandy
3/4 oz Blue Curacao
4 1/2 oz Pineapple Juice
3 oz Orange Juice
Preparation:
Shake all ingredients together with ice except the De Kuyper Blue Curaçao. Strain into a highball glass half filled with crushed ice. Top with De Kuyper Blue Curaçao (do not stir before serving).
Mojito
Ingredients
3 fresh mint sprigs
2 tsp sugar
3 tbsp fresh lime juic
1 1/2 oz light rum
club soda
Preparation:
Muddle mint leaves and sugar
Fill with ice, then add rum and lime juice
Stir, then add a splash of club soda
Garnish with mint sprig
History:
Mojito is a traditional Cuban cocktail which became popular in the United States during the late 1980s, and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity.A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, carbonated water and mint. Its combination of sweetness and refreshing citrus and mint flavors are intended to mask the potent kick of the rum, and have made this clear cocktail a popular summer drink
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Margarita
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz triple sec
1 oz lime juicesalt
Preparation:
Moisten rim of glass with lime. Rotate rim against coarse salt, to salt the outside but not the inside of the rim.
Fill the glass with ice cubes.
Combine ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake until cold.
Pour contents of shaker into glass.
Garnish with slice or wedge of lime.
History:
There are many stories about who invented the margarita and why
According to Salvador Negrete, the son of Daniel Negrete, the family story goes that Daniel opened a bar at the Garci Crispo hotel with his brother, David. The day before David's marriage, Daniel presented the margarita as a wedding present to Margarita, his sister-in-law.
It was a combination of one-third Triple Sec, one-third tequila and one-third squeezed Mexican lime juice. The drink was not blended and was served with hand-crushed ice
A bartender, Pancho Morales invented the margarita on July 4, 1942, at a Juárez, Mexico bar named Tommy's Place. Supposedly, a woman requested a Magnolia (brandy, Cointreau, and an egg yolk topped with Champagne). Morales was a little fuzzy on the recipe; he improvised and his ersatz creation was a big hit
The bar was Rancho La Gloria, midway on the old road that connected Tijuana with Rosarito Beach. A showgirl and sometime actress who called herself Marjorie King/Rita De La Rosa (she regularly played piano in and around San Diego at the Hotel Del Coronado and Del Mar, just to name a few) was one of the customers. She was allergic to all hard liquor, except for tequila, but she didn't like to drink it straight or even with a lemon and salt[citation needed].
Mr. Herrera started experimenting and came up with a concoction that was three parts white tequila, two parts Cointreau and one part fresh lemon juice. He added shaved ice and blended the mixture with a hand shaker
According to the promotional flyer for the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy (Margaret) Lee in 1948.
The Balinese Room was opened in 1941 and was Texas's finest nightclub with A/C, casino gambling, superb food and drinks, and stellar entertainment until the Texas Rangers finally shut it down in 1957.
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