daiquiri

This drink is designated as an IBA Official Cocktail
Daiquiri
Type:	Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume:	Rum
Served:	"Straight up"; without ice
Standard drinkware:	Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients†:	4.5cl (9 parts) White rum 2cl (4 parts) lime juice 0.5cl (1 part) Gomme syrup
Preparation:	Mix in shaker filled with ice cubes. Strain into glass and serve.

Daiquiri (properly spelled with an acute accent on the final letter ("daiquirí") and pronounced [daiki'ɾi] but commonly anglicized to ['dæk^həɹi] and written without the accent) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum and lime juice. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in the El Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba.

The Daiquiri 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.

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.^[1] The cocktail was 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 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 Daiquiri 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.

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 daiquiri increased over the space of a few decades.[1] The daiquiri was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and president John F. Kennedy.[2]

Variations

• Daiquiri Floridita - with maraschino liqueur, created by Constantino Ribalaigua Vert at El Floridita
• Papa Doble - double the proportion of rum, named for Ernest Hemingway
• Hemingway Special - leave out the sugar, add a splash of grapefruit juice and maraschino liqueur. Sometimes Hemingway Special and Papa Doble's recipe is mixed together.
• The Champ Sampson -Triple the Dark Rum...aka Heavy on the handle. Often Ordered in Colorado and sometimes referred to as a "Landlocked Dax."

Frozen daiquiri

A wide variety of alcoholic mixed drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called a "frozen daiquiri". These drinks can also be combined and poured into a "margarita machine" or a "daiquiri machine" eliminating the need for manual pulvarization. Although to purists most of these are not true daiquiris at all, use of this term to describe these drinks is common, especially around the U.S. Gulf Coast. 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.

References in popular culture

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• In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield says daiquiri is his favourite drink. Despite this, though, all he orders during the story is scotch and soda.
• In the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace", the Tenth Doctor claims to have invented the banana daiquiri "a couple of centuries early" during a party in 18th century France.
• Banana daiquiri (or "banananananana dakry") features in the Discworld novel Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett. In the author's biography for Good Omens, Pratchett says he is always grateful when fans buy him one.
• In "Another Lonely Christmas" by Prince ^[2], the persona sings "Every Christmas night for the last seven years, I drink banana daiquiris til I'm blind"
• In John Updike's Rabbit books, Harry Angstrom's favourite cocktail is a daiquiri.
• In an episode of Futurama ('Crimes of the Hot') on finding out that Halleys comet is out of ice (which is needed to counter the effects of global warming) Bender remarks "This could mean the end of the banana daiquiri as we know it ... also life."
• In the movie "Wedding Crashers", at the end of the football game, Christopher Walken's character initiates a "Daiquiri timeout."
• Daiquiri was the favourite drink of Mr. Wormold, the main character of Graham Greene's novel, Our Man in Havana
• In Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly Last Summer, Violet Venable has the habit of drinking daiquiri everyday at five o'clock.
• "Strawberry Daiquiri" features as one of the "Official 50 Flavours" of Jelly Belly's
• In the movie, The 40-Year Old Virgin, the drunk girl that drives Andy home vomits all over him. Following this Andy asks "did you have a daiquiri tonight?"
• In the West End version of the musical Avenue Q, a series of 'absinthe daiquiris' lead to an important scene. In the original Broadway version, Long Island Iced Teas are used instead.
• In MASH Episode 2x15 Officers Only, Colonel Blake orders a banana daiquiri, the barkeep replies "Is that a drink, sir?"
• A Laugh-In sketch featured two burly cowboys in a saloon ordering whiskey, followed by a third more effeminate cowboy ordering a strawberry daiquiri.

See also

Wikibooks Bartending has a page on the topic of

Daiquiri

• List of cocktails

Sources

• Daiquiri Story
• Calabrese, Salvatore. Complete Home Bartender's Guide. 

References

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