Canchánchara Recipe
Cuban aguardiente with honey and lime over crushed ice — rustic, unpolished and older than almost anything else in the book.
- Category: New Era Drinks
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 20%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Aged rum60 ml
- Fresh lime juice20 ml
- Honey15 ml
- Cold water10 ml
How to Make It
- Dissolve the honey in the water and lime juice in the glass.
- Add the rum and stir.
- Fill with crushed ice and stir again until chilled.
- Garnish with a lime wheel.
Garnish
Lime wheel
The Story
Drunk by the mambises, the Cuban independence fighters of the 1860s, and still served in Trinidad de Cuba in clay cups.
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