Mojito Wikipedia. Mojito Spanish moxito is a traditional Cuban highball. Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients white rum, sugar traditionally sugar cane juice, lime juice, soda water, and mint. The original Cuban recipe uses spearmint or yerba buena, a mint variety very popular on the island. Its combination of sweetness, citrus, and mint flavors is intended to complement the rum, and has made the mojito a popular summer drink. The cocktail has a relatively low alcohol content about 1. When preparing a mojito, lime juice is added to sugar or syrup and mint leaves. The mixture is then gently mashed with a muddler. The mint leaves should only be bruised to release the essential oils and should not be shredded. Then rum is added and the mixture is briefly stirred to dissolve the sugar and to lift the mint leaves up from the bottom for better presentation. Finally, the drink is topped with crushed ice and sparkling soda water. Mint leaves and lime wedges are used to garnish the glass. The mojito is one of the most famous rum based highballs. There are several versions of the mojito. HistoryeditHavana, Cuba, is the birthplace of the Mojito,citation needed although the exact origin of this classic cocktail is the subject of debate. One story traces the Mojito to a similar 1. Best Mojito Recipe Simple Syrup' title='Best Mojito Recipe Simple Syrup' />A delicious recipe for Mojito, with Captain Morgan Original spiced rum, mint, sugar, lime juice and soda. Also lists similar drink recipes. El Draque, after Sir Francis Drake. In 1. Cartagena de Indias Drakes ships sailed towards Havana but there was an epidemic of dysentery and scurvy on board. It was known that the local South American Indians had remedies for various tropical illnesses, so a small boarding party went ashore on Cuba and came back with ingredients for an effective medicine. The ingredients were aguardiente de caa translated as burning water, a crude form of rum made from sugar cane mixed with local tropical ingredients lime, sugarcane juice, and mint. Lime juice on its own would have significantly prevented scurvy and dysentery,91. Mojito Recipe Simple Syrup Lime Mint' title='Mojito Recipe Simple Syrup Lime Mint' />Mojito Fruit Salad is a refreshing, nonalcoholic fruit and berry salad that tastes just like a sweet mojito. Ive got the only fruit salad recipe youll need all. Top 25 Cocktail Recipe Mojito Top 25 Cocktail Recipe Mojito Learn how to make Mojitos with Jamie Olivers Drinks Tube Bacardi. Follow our stepbystep mojito recipe. This is the BEST mojito recipe ever. I worked at it for a while and then I discovered a secret ingredient that makes ALL the difference This refreshing drink is an adaptation of the signature Mango Mojito cocktail at the Conch Republic Seafood Company in Key West. Store leftover Simple Syrup in the. Bacardi Mojito Recipe Simple SyrupBritish ca. Mint, lime and sugar were also helpful in hiding the harsh taste of this spirit. While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was the original combination of these ingredients. Some historians contend that African slaves who worked in the Cuban sugar cane fields during the 1. Guarapo, the sugar cane juice often used in Mojitos,4 was a popular drink among the slaves who named it. It never originally contained lime juice. There are several theories behind the origin of the name Mojito one such theory holds that name relates to mojo, a Cuban seasoning made from lime and used to flavour dishes. Another theory is that the name Mojito is simply a derivative of mojadito Spanish for a little wet, the diminutive of mojado wet. Due to the vast influence of immigration from the Canary Islands, the term probably came from the mojo creole marinades adapted in Cuba using citrus as opposed to traditional Isleno types. The Mojito has routinely been presented as a favorite drink of author. Ernest Hemingway. It has also often been said that Ernest Hemingway made the bar called La Bodeguita del Medio famous when he became one of its regulars and wrote My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita on a wall of the bar. This epigraph, handwritten and signed in his name,1. Hemingway biographers about such patronage and the authors taste for mojitos. La Bodeguita del Medio is better known for its food than its drink. A survey by an international market research company found that in 2. Mojito was the most popular cocktail in Britain and France. VariationseditMany hotels in Havana also add Angostura bitters to cut the sweetness of the Mojito while icing sugar is often muddled with the mint leaves rather than cane sugar, and many establishments simply use sugar syrup to control sweetness. Many bars today in Havana use lemon juice rather than fresh lime. The Rose Mojito, which is a Mojito variation containing the rose flavored spirit, Lanique, was first created at the Alberts Schloss bar in Manchester, England. A Mojito without alcohol is called a Virgin Mojito or Nojito. The South Side Fizz is made with Gin in place of Rum. See alsoeditReferenceseditTraditional Mojito recipe from Cuba. Tasteofcuba. com. Retrieved 2. 01. 1 0. Colleen Graham About. Guide 2. 01. 1 0. About. com Mojito. Cocktails. about. Retrieved 2. 01. 1 0. Summer Cocktail News Mojitos Go Fruity. Prweb. com. 2. 00. Retrieved 2. 01. 1 0. Fernandez, Maria Elena 2. Shake It Up, Baby Cuban Cocktail Is Making a Splash. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1. 6 May 2. Fumi. How to Muddle a Mojito. Wasabibratwurst. com. Retrieved 2. 01. 1 0. The Classic Cuban Mojito. Artofdrink. com. Retrieved 2. Cuban Mojito Recipe or American Mojito RecipeBurkhart, Jeff 2. Anne Burrell. Twenty Years Behind Bars the spirited adventures of a real bartender 1st ed. Photo. Cine Media. ISBN 9. 78. 09. 85. Maratos, David 7 July 2. How The El Draque Cocktail May Have Helped Britannia Rule The Waves. Go. Articles. Archived from the original on 8 February 2. Maratos, David 1. June 2. 01. 2. The 1st Cocktail, Invented 1. Was A Medicinal Crude Rum Mix Article 3. Archived from the original on 2. September 2. 01. 2. Mojito History. Mojitocompany. Archived from the original on 1. April 2. 00. 9.  Roberts, Walter Adolphe 1. Lands of the inner sea, the West Indies and Bermuda. New York Coward Mc. Cann. p.  2. 1.  Sky juice and flying fish traditional Caribbean cooking by Jessica B. Harris in 1. 99. 1Mojito is derived from the Spanish mojo sauce, which often contains lime juice see mojito at Dictionary. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2. Houghton Mifflin, while mojo is derived from the Spanish verb mojar, meaning to make wet see definition 3 of mojo at Dictionary. Websters New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition v 0. 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