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daiquiri

 
Dictionary: dai·qui·ri   ('kə-rē, dăk'ə-) pronunciation
n., pl., -ris.
An iced cocktail of rum, lime or lemon juice, and sugar.

[After Daiquirí, a village of eastern Cuba.]


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Correctly a trade name for rum; commonly used for a mixture of rum and fresh lime juice, or other fruit juice.

[DAK-uh-ree] A cocktail made with rum, lime juice and sugar. Some daiquiris are made with fruit, the mixture being puréed in a blender. Frozen daiquiris are made either with crushed ice or frozen fruit chunks, all processed until smooth in a blender.

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Daiquirí
IBA Official Cocktail
Daiquiri drink.jpg
Daiquirí garnished with lime
Type Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume
Served Straight up; without ice
Standard drinkware
Cocktail Glass (Martini).svg
Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients
Preparation Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain in chilled cocktail glass.

Daiquiri (pronounced /ˈdækəri/, Spanish: daiquirí [daikiˈɾi]) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, lime juice, and sugar or other sweetener.[1] There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in the El Floridita bar[2] in Havana, Cuba.

The Daiquirí is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. In the book, he also suggests some variations, such as substitute part or all of syrup with grenadine.

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Origins

The name Daiquirí is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area, and it is a word of Taíno origin.[3] The cocktail was supposedly invented about 1905 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General Manager of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C. Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C. Merritt Holmes and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar.

Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of rum completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon. Later the Daiquirí evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled flute glass. An article in the March 14, 1937 edition of the Miami Herald as well as private correspondence of J.F. Linthicum confirm the recipe and early history.[citation needed]

Consumption of the drink remained localized until 1909, when Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and drinkers of the daiquirí increased over the space of a few decades. The daiquirí was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and president John F. Kennedy.[4]

The drink became popular in the 1940s.[citation needed] Wartime rationing made whiskey, vodka, etc, hard to come by, yet because of Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy (which opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean), rum was easily obtainable. The Good Neighbor Policy (also known as 'The Pan-American program'), helped make Latin America seem fashionable. As a consequence, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the domain of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the Daiquirí saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US.

The basic recipe for a Daiquirí is also similar to the grog British sailors drank aboard ship from the 1740s onwards. By 1795 the Royal Navy daily grog ration contained rum, water, ¾ ounce of lemon or lime juice, and 2 ounces of sugar.[5] This was a common drink across the Caribbean, and as soon as ice became available this was included instead of the water. Jennings Cox's story is certainly a popular one and maybe he was responsible for the naming of the drink, but as far as creating it he was about 150 years late.

Variations

  • Daiquirí Floridita – with maraschino liqueur, created by Constantino Ribalaigua Vert at El Floridita.[citation needed]
  • Hemingway Daiquirí, or Papa Doble – two and a half jiggers of Bacardi White Label, juice of two limes and half a grapefruit, six drops of maraschino liqueur, served frozen.[6]

Frozen daiquirí

A wide variety of alcoholic mixed drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called frozen daiquiris. These drinks can also be combined and poured into a blender eliminating the need for manual pulverization. Such drinks are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie, and come in a wide variety of flavors made with various alcohol or liquors. Another way to create a frozen daiquiri (mostly fruit-flavored variants) is by using frozen limeade, providing the required texture, sweetness and sourness all at once. [7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cuban Daiquiri Recipe
  2. ^ Daiquiri Cocktail made by El Floridita's bartenders
  3. ^ The United Confederation of Taíno People. "Taíno Dictionary" (in Spanish). http://www.uctp.org/VocesIndigena.html. Retrieved 2007-10-18. 
  4. ^ Salvatore Calabrese (2002). Complete Home Bartender's Guide. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. p. 76. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ir1RCiXEqSIC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=daiquiri+%22john+f+kennedy%22&source=web&ots=uG9KU4VzG-&sig=yGMOI80JST_yUo28TK101Lr3GiQ. 
  5. ^ Stephen R. Bown (2003). Scurvy. Thomas Dunne Books. p. 181. ISBN 0-312-31391-8. 
  6. ^ A. E. Hotchner (1966). Papa Hemingway. Random House. ISBN 0394439902. 
  7. ^ Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri Recipe

Translations: Daiquiri
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - daiquiri (cocktaildrink)

Nederlands (Dutch)
daiquiri (rum- citroencocktail)

Français (French)
n. - daïquiri

Deutsch (German)
n. - Daiquiri (alkohol. Mixgetränk)

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - νταϊκίρι, κοκτέιλ με ρούμι

Italiano (Italian)
daiquiri

Português (Portuguese)
n. - daiquiri (m)

Русский (Russian)
дайкири (коктейль)

Español (Spanish)
n. - daiquiri

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - daiquri (cocktail)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
一种鸡尾酒, 代基里酒

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 一種雞尾酒, 台克利酒

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (칵테일) 다이키리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ダイキリ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شراب مسكر مصنوع من الكحول وعصير الليمون الحامض والسكر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דייקירי - קוקטייל (רום, מיץ חושחש ועוד)‬


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