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
Measures below are multiplied for 12 drinks. Unmeasurable amounts such as “a splash” are left as written.
- 540 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 540 ml line. White rum
- 240 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 240 ml line. Lime juice
- 360 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 360 ml line. Simple syrup - Less if your strawberries are in season and sweet
- 60 berries Strawberry - Hulled, and frozen ones work beautifully
- 2839 ml Measuring jug A measuring jug: pour to the 2839 ml line. Ice
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Quick version
- Blend rum, lime, syrup and strawberries with ice until smooth.
Method
Batch (12 drinks)Batch (12 drinks) - about 3.98 l of measured ingredients, before ice and dilution.
Timings and per-glass steps below are written for one drink and are not scaled. A full jug takes longer to chill, so stir or shake until it is properly cold rather than by the clock, and pour over fresh ice one glass at a time.
- 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
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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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