| 1.5 oz |
Rum |
| 1 tablespoon |
Mint leaves |
| 1 tablespoon |
Sugar |
| 2-4 |
Lime wedges |
| To taste |
Soda |
Preparation:
Cover bottom of glass with mint leaves. Add sugar and lime wedges. Muddle gently. Add crushed ice, Rum, and soda water. Garnish with mint leaves. 1
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| Historical Information |
| Mojito (pronounced mo-HEE-toe), one of Cuba's oldest cocktails, comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a little spell. Thus the Mojito recipe was
born.
Bacardi traces the drink's roots to 1586, when Francis Drake and his pirates tried
to sack Havana for its gold. While the invasion was unsuccessful, Drake's
associate, Richard Drake, was said to have invented the Mojito Recipe. A like
cocktail known as El Draque made with aguardiente (a crude forerunner of rum),
Like the present day Mojito Recipe with sugar, lime and mint. Early on, it was
consumed for medicinal purposes. Around the mid-1800s, the Mojito Recipe was
altered and gained in popularity as the original Bacardi Company was
established. In 1940, Cuban playwright and poet Federico Villoch proclaimed:
"When aquardiente was replaced with rum, the Draque was to be called a
Mojito." Have fun with the Mojito Recipe. Other accounts suggest that slaves
working in Cuban sugar cane fields in the late 19th century invented the mojito
recipe. |
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