Recommended Difford's Guide modern web export by Difford's Guide (2018) — Difford's Guide modern source record
| 60 ml | Cachaça (unaged) — {"raw_name": "Cachaça (unaged)", "raw_measure": "60 ml Cachaça (unaged)", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | base |
| 22.5 ml | Chilled water — {"raw_name": "Chilled water", "raw_measure": "22.5 ml Chilled water", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | dilution |
| 0.5 whole | Lime (fresh) — {"raw_name": "Lime (fresh)", "raw_measure": "1⁄2 fresh Lime (fresh)", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | other |
| 3 barspoon | powdered sugar — {"raw_name": "Powdered sugar", "raw_measure": "3 barspoon Powdered sugar", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | sweetener |
- Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane).
- Cut a ripe lime in half (from pole to pole) and remove the core from each half by cutting a V-shaped groove. (You'll need one-half of the lime per cocktail.) CHOP into wedges and each wedge chopped in half before dropping the resulting 6 or 8 lime chunks into the base of shaker.
- Add 3 bar spoons powdered sugar [or 15ml (½oz) sugar syrup 2:1] and MUDDLE.
- If using cubed ice straight from the freezer, add chilled water (or optionally add fruit of choice) and MUDDLE some more. If using watery ice then omit some or all of the water/juice.
- When sure the lime's juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, POUR the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass).
- POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the shaker tin used to muddle and swirl to rinse tin before pouring cachaça into serving glass. STIR to combine with other ingredients.
- FILL glass with small cubes or cracked ice. (If using large ice cubes, crack (rather than crush) four to five large ice cubes using an ICE TAPPER and drop into serving glass.)
- STIR before topping with more ice.
- Serve with a stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane) but no straws.
Garnish: Prepare garnish of stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane).
Ice: ice
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Modern provenance preserved separately; do not merge with historical recipes on name alone.