Brazilian Daiquiri

Name: Brazilian Daiquiri
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Brazil
Ingredients: 8 large, juicy limes; 1 cup turbinado sugar (Sugar in the Raw; see box, following) or granulated sugar, or more to taste; 2 cups cachaça, 151 rum, or regular white rum; 4 cups ice cubes

Caipirinha

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Barbecue Bible

By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

About

Every rum-drinking nation has a version of the daiquiri, and Brazil’s is the caipirinha (pronounced kaipir-EEN-ya). Made with only three ingredients—fresh limes, sugar, and cane spirits—the caipirinha seems simple enough and it goes down with astonishing ease. But woe betide the person who drinks several in rapid succession, for the caipirinha is made with one of the strongest spirits in the western hemisphere: cachaça.

Cachaça (pronounced ka-SHAH-sa) is a spirit made