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Original Daiquiri Cocktail

Courtesy of Old Havana Cookbook/Hippocrene Books, Inc.
December 2005/January 2006

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When the Guantánamo Naval Base was being established in the early days of the Republic, a group of officers were initiated into the secret of a cocktail made with the juice of green limes and Bacardi rum. It was immediately named Daiquiri, in honor of its birthplace, a little mining town nearby. The name is now famous.

This recipe is taken
from The Old Havana
Cookbook and appears
courtesy of Hippocrene
Books, Inc.

2 jiggers Bacardi rum

1 teaspoon sugar

Juice of ½ lime

1 cold glass filled with crushed ice

Combine rum, sugar, and lime juice. Pour over ice and enjoy.