Page 45 - Tropic Magazine Issue 27

TROPIC • DRINKS

*Double strain means using a fine
tea strainer as well as a cocktail
strainer. Hold the tea strainer over
the glassware you are pouring into
as you pour through a cocktail
strainer over your cocktail shaker.

Piña Colada
In a cocktail shaker add:
The Caribe Hilton Hotel claims Ramón
"Monchito" Marrero created the Piña 60ml white rum
Colada in 1954 while bartending at the 20ml cream of coconut
90ml pineapple juice
hotel. According to this account, Marrero
finally settled upon the recipe for the Piña Method
Colada when he felt it captured the true Fill with ice, close shaker and
essence of Puerto Rico. shake hard
Add ice into a highball glass
Strain contents of cocktail shaker
into highball glass
Garnish with a pineapple wedge

Mojito
Havana, Cuba is the birthplace of the mojito, In a highball glass add:
although its exact origin is the subject of 60ml white rum
debate. It was known that the local South 4 lime wedges
American Indians had remedies for various 8 mint leaves
tropical illnesses, so a small boarding party 2 teaspoons of sugar
went ashore to Cuba and came back with Method
ingredients for an effective medicine. Fill with ice
The ingredients were aguardiente de caña, Top with soda, stir and garnish
which translates as “burning water” — with a mint sprig
a crude form of rum made from sugarcane
mixed with local tropical ingredients such as
lime, sugarcane juice and mint.

Margarita
According to cocktail historian David In a cocktail shaker add:
Wondrich, the margarita is related 40ml tequila
to a popular Mexican drink, the Daisy 20ml Cointreau
(margarita is Spanish for “daisy”), remade 30ml lime juice
with tequila instead of brandy. It became 10ml sugar syrup
popular during Prohibition as people Method
drifted over the border for alcohol. Once all ingredients are in shaker,
There’s an account from 1936 of Iowa close the lid and shake hard
newspaper editor James Graham finding Salt rim of a coupe-style glass
such a cocktail in Tijuana, years before and double strain* contents of
any of the other margarita “creation shaker into coupe glass.
myths”.

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