Recipe: Caipirinha Drink

Cachito showed me his version of Brazil's national cocktail which is the Caipirinha. I remember liking Caiprinha in the past, but his version definitely tasted different but still good. He told me that we were making them because we had tons of "(baby) lemons from our tree in our backyard.

Mash up the following in a wine glass for 1 serving and let sit for a couple hours in the fridge:
3 cut up lemons (or lime is typically used).
2 Tbsp flour




After a couple hours, take glasses out of fridge and add the following:
Add Cachaca alcohol half way (or to your liking!)




Fill rest of glass with pineapple juice.



According to Wikipedia:

While both rum and cachaça are made from sugarcane-derived products, most rum is made from molasses. Specifically with cachaça, the alcohol results from the fermentation of sugarcane juice that is afterwards distilled.

The word "caipirinha" is the diminutive version of the word "caipira", which refers to someone from the countryside, being an almost exact equivalent of the American English hillbilly. The word may be used as either a masculine or a feminine noun, but when referring to this drink it is only feminine (usage of diminutives is common in Brazil). However, a Brazilian hardly ever thinks of a "country person" when ordering a "Caipirinha". In the Brazilian vocabulary, the word "Caipirinha" is mostly associated with the drink itself.



According to Drinkoftheweek.com, the following is the typical recipe for this drink:

2 oz. Cachaca
1 Lime
1 tsp. Sugar

Use a rocks or old-fashioned glass. Cut the lime into 8 wedges and put in the glass. Add sugar. Muddle the lime and sugar together until they are well mixed. Fill the glass with crushed ice. Add Cachaca. Stir.

(NO, I did not drink the whole glass...I actually only had a sip of it to taste. For those of you who know me, you know that I have a low tolerance for alcohol and turn bright as a tomato when I drink.)