Welcome to the first weekly Friday chiller post – we’ll every Friday around 5pm post what we think is the drink of the evening. Not to disappoint our trusted readers we’ll start off with a classic Caipirinha (whhooo that took some googleing to find the correct spelling…).
This Brazilian national cocktail is based on Cachaça which is Brazilian rom distilled from sugar cane. The word “Caipirinha” is the diminutive version of the word “caipira“, which refers to someone from the countryside, being an almost exact equivalent of the American English hillbilly.
How to make your Friday even better (recipe of 1 drink):
- Make sure to have a bottle of premium Cachaça (My favorite Cachaça is Pitu which has a distinctive and flowery taste.);
- 1 lime fruit;
- 12 ice cubes;
- 3 tea spoons of cane sugar;
- Old fashioned glass
- 1 lime fruit;
- 12 ice cubes;
- 3 tea spoons of cane sugar;
- Old fashioned glass
Start by muddling lime and sugar in the glass until all juices are out from the fruit. Crush the ice (if you don’t have an ice crusher you can put the ice in a towel and slam with a hammer). Fill the glass with crushed ice to the top. Poor 5cl of Pitu and fill up with even more ice. Stir and serve!
Next Friday we’ll show you something more spectacular, stay tuned 