Bacardi Cocktail
45 ml White rum, 20 ml Lime juice, 10 ml Grenadine, 1 Lime wedge
Strawberry Daiquiri
Rum and lime and real strawberries, blended cold.
Fruity
Easy
5 min
Photo: Strawberry daiquiri by lenarc · CC BY-SA 3.0 · All credits
Ingredients
- 45 ml Jigger One small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a tablespoon and a teaspoon. White rum
- 20 ml Spoons A tablespoon and a teaspoon. Lime juice
- 30 ml Jigger One small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a teaspoon. Simple syrup - Less if your strawberries are in season and sweet
- 5 berries Strawberry - Hulled, and frozen ones work beautifully
- 237 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 237 ml line. Ice
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What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Blend rum, lime, syrup and strawberries with ice until smooth.
Method
- Hull the strawberries and put them in a blender.
- Add the rum, lime juice, syrup and a cup of ice.
- Blend until completely smooth, stopping to push the fruit down if it needs it.
- Pour into a chilled glass and sit a strawberry on the rim.
Serve it
Strawberry Daiquiri
The frozen Daiquiri is the drink that gave the blender its reputation, and this is the one that earned it. Made well - with real fruit, real lime and just enough sugar - it is a proper cocktail in a cold costume; made with a pre-mixed powder it is a dessert that tastes of nothing. It takes four minutes and a machine, and there is no better use for a punnet of strawberries that are going soft.
Getting it right
Sweetness is the only real decision: taste a strawberry first, and cut the syrup back if they are ripe and full of sugar. Frozen berries blended straight from the freezer make a thicker, colder drink, so if you have them, use them and add less ice. Fresh lime is essential - it is what stops the whole thing tasting like a milkshake - and do not over-blend, or the ice turns to water and the drink separates in the glass.
Tasting notes
Strawberry, lime and a clean rum finish, thick enough to need a straw. Sweet, cold and uncomplicated.
If you would rather drink it from a coupe, shake it instead: muddle four strawberries in the tin, add the rum, lime and syrup, shake hard and strain.
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