WINTER SPICED DAIQUIRI: CHIC CHOC RUM

Monday, March 25, 2019

“There is a Rum for everyone, but they don’t know it……yet”

~Erik Voskamp

Famously drunk by John F Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway the Daiquiri is a fabulous example of simple ingredients working together to create a perfect drink.

Daiquirí is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba. The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer, named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba at the time of the Spanish–American War.

I wanted to add a little twist to the classic by creating a delicious syrup to add to the drink in place of the simple syrup. I created a Winter Spice Syrup;

WINTER SPICED SYRUP

WHAT YOU NEED

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup maple syrup

1/2 cup water

Sprig of rosemary

2 x cinnamon sticks

Pieces of orange peel

WHAT YOU DO

Place everything into a pan and heat till just simmering. Allow to cool and infuse. Strain and store in the fridge.