Caipirinha
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Cachaça, lime and sugar, muddled in the glass and topped with crushed ice. It takes cachaça rather than rum because cachaça is something else: it is distilled from fresh-pressed cane juice, while almost all rum is made from molasses, and that is where its fresh, grassy edge comes from.
Ingredients
- 2 oz of cachaça
- 1 whole lime, cut into wedges
- 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
Preparation
- Cut the lime into wedges and place them in a short glass.
- Add the sugar and gently crush to extract the juice without breaking the bitter peel.
- Add crushed ice and pour in the cachaça.
- Stir gently.
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