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Mojitos




Source of Recipe


CELEBRATE! BY SHEILA LUKINS


Recipe Introduction


The Mojito, the Cuban national cocktail, was originally mixed with Bacardi rum in the mid-nineteenth century, when Don Facundo Bacardi made the world's first light rum in nearby Puerto Rico. Earlier there was a cocktail called the draque, made with mint, sugar, and aguardiente, which is freshly distilled cane juice& #151; a raw and fiery potion. Rum makes a smooth cocktail, and soda and mint give it lively effervescence and a cooling bouquet.




List of Ingredients




6 tablespoons chopped fresh mint, plus several small whole mint leaves
1 tablespoon superfine sugar
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Crushed ice
12 ounces white rum
Club soda
6 sprigs fresh mint, for garnish

Recipe



Combine the chopped mint, whole mint leaves, superfine sugar, and lime juice in a pitcher and stir well. Fill six tall glasses with crushed ice. Pour the mint mixture over the ice. Add 2 ounces of rum to each glass and top with club soda. Gently stir, then garnish each drink with a mint sprig.