Drinkin’: Daiquiri
So last time I wrote about drinkin’, I was not yet of the legal age to drink. Now I’ve been 21 for more than a month, and let me tell ya, it is seriously awesome. I really didn’t think it would be that much different, since I can pretty much drink any time anyhow. I mean, I’m in college, let’s face it, if I really wanna get drunk, I can find a way to drink. But the moment I turned 21 (literally, I went to a bar and started drinkin at midnight) I really realized the awesomeness that comes with being able to go somewhere, order a drink, and punch the bartender in the face with your smugness when they all wanna see your license. So, in celebration of being 21, I’m sharing with you guys my most favoritest drink recipe ever ever ever. I’ve always tried mixed drinks that my mom has ordered, and usually they’re way too alcoholic-tasting for me. I can’t stand vodka (the usual base of such frilly drinks), and all I can taste is usually the flavor of rubbing alcohol when I drink other mixed drinks. So, this lovely recipe is for a daiquiri, but not the gross frozen mixed kind with strawberries and myriad other ingredients reminiscent of drunken 40-year-old Jimmy Buffett fans in Pensacola. This is the real thing, which was apparently invented in 1905 in Cuba — way before frozen drink machines existed. It’s basically sugar, lime juice and rum, and it’s freakin awesome. I add a few more ingredients to give it some color, and make it more awesome, so here’s the recipe:
You’re gonna need a cocktail shaker, or just one of those large metal cups they use and a tumbler to put on top. I also use a cocktail strainer because it makes it easier to pour into the glass. So fill the metal shaker with ice and add the following:
- 1 1/2 oz. Rum (preferable Bacardi, definitely the clear kind, not the dark kind or that stupid spiced jive)
- 1 1/2 oz Sugar Syrup (equal parts sugar and water, boiled until the sugar dissolves and cooled)
- 1 oz freshly squezed lime juice (it’s not that much effort to squeeze a damn lime. Don’t use the bottled kind)
- 1 oz Whisky sour mix (in the drink aisle next to the ginger ale and bloody mary mix
- 1 oz Roses’s Sweetened Lime Juice (adds a little more sweetness and color. Probably sitting on the shelf next to the sour mix)
Mix all together in the shaker, pour into a martini glass, top off with a cherry with a stem and drink up. These things taste like candy, and will get you sauced in like, 2 seconds. I drank the one I made to take pictures of at like, 2:30 in the afternoon, and halfway through, I kinda thought it was a good idea to take my shirt off. So be careful with these.
