The Daiquiri cocktail, made of rum, lime juice and sugar, takes its name from the village and iron mines of Daiquiri near Santiago, Cuba, where the cocktail originated around 1900.
Daiquiri Natural is the basic mix, that serves as the starting point to the more complex cocktails of the family:
Daiquiri Classic
Ingredients
• 1.3 oz light-dry rum
• 0.7 oz lime juice
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• crushed ice
Preparation
• Mix in a shaker
• Garnish with a slice of lime and serve.
Daiquiri Floridita is the most common and famous version of this cocktail, allegedly it was invented by Constantino Ribalaigua Vert, barman and owner of the Floridita in the 1950s, whom Ernest Hemingway nicknamed El grande Constante.
This recipe is also known as Daiquirí Frappé
Floridita Daiquiri
Ingredients
• 1.5 oz light-dry rum
• the juice of 1 lime
• 1 tsp sugar
• crushed ice
• 10 drops of maraschino liqueur
Preparation
• Mix all the ingredients in a blender until the ice is finely crushed and serve iced.
Other versions
Papa’s is the version of the cocktail that Hemingway allegedly preferred (Papa is the nickname that fishermen gave Hemingway in Cuba), is identical to the Floridita Daiquiri, it only substitutes lime juice with grapefruit juice.
It is said that Hemingway drank this cocktail with no sugar and doubled the rum.
Mulata is the same cocktail as the Floridita Daiquiri, but instead of light-dry rum (which is colourless) it requires aged rum, which gives the cocktail an amber colour.
Other versions, which did not originate in the Floridita, are also common in bars worldwide, such as Banana daiquiri and Strawberry daiquiri.
Strawberry Daiquiri
Ingredients
• 1/2 oz strawberry schnapps
• 1 oz light rum
• 1 oz lime juice
• 1 tsp powdered sugar
• 1 oz strawberries
• crushed ice
Preparation
• Mix all the ingredients in a blender until the ice is finely crushed and serve iced.