Mojito
Havana, bottled
White rum, fresh lime, and mint muddled with sugar and stretched with soda water. Bright, herbaceous, and endlessly crushable in the heat.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz White Rum
- 2/3 oz Fresh Lime Juice
- 6 sprigs Mint Leaves
- 2 barspoons Sugar
- Top up Soda Water
Method
Gently muddle mint leaves with sugar and lime juice in a highball glass. Add crushed ice. Pour in rum. Top with soda water. Stir gently from bottom to top. Garnish with a mint sprig.
Descended possibly from the 1586 Draque (Drake's crew medicinal remedy with aguardiente, sugar, lime, mint, documented in folk history without hard evidence). Earliest published recipes: 1927 "Mojo Criollo" in El Arte De Hacer un Cocktail y Algo Más; 1931 in Cuban Cookery; 1931-32 as "Mojito" at Sloppy Joe's Bar, Havana. Notes: Drake origin widely repeated but unverified. Per Difford's Guide #1341; IBA Contemporary Classics list.
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