Recipe: Daiquiri

Right now I'm enjoying one of my favorite cocktails to enjoy at home - perhaps due to its simplicity - the daiquiri. And, by daiquiri, I mean the original - not some blended strawberry-flavored sugar ice.

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz light rum
• 0.5 oz lime juice
• 1 tsp sugar (or 0.5 oz simple syrup)

Method

Shake all ingredients over shaved ice, strain into cocktail glass. Optionally, garnish with lime.

Comments

I used my lime simple syrup this time around, just to give it more of a lime kick. I think it turned out well. Shaved ice is too complicated for me for a single cocktail, but I have an ice cube crusher, so I simply use crushed ice. Also, I use Cruzan Rum, which has much less of a bite than Bacardi.

All in all, the flavors were balanced - a bite of alcohol behind the sweet-tart lime flavor. Perfect.