What is National Daiquiri Day?
People from around the world each year fill their glasses with a rum-based cocktail and toast to National Daiquiri Day on July 19th. So, raise your glass and welcome all of the others in this celebration!
Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime), and sugar.
It may be difficult to imagine how the Daiquiri came to be, with the Tasting of sunshine and beaches. During the Spanish-American War, men blasted away in the mines of a tiny community off the coast of Cuba in 1898. Jennings Cox, an American engineer, supervised a mining operation located in a village named Daiquiri. Cox and his workers will dine at the Venus bar every day after work. In a tall glass of ice, Cox mixed up Bacardi, lime, and sugar one day in a tall glass of ice. After the Daiquiri mines, He named the new drink, and it quickly became a staple in Havana. Eventually, someone added shaved ice, and occasionally lemons or both lemons and limes were used.
Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a US Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink and later introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., in 1909. The Daiquiri's fame has since increased over the next few decades.
Although the Daiquiri is often served frozen, combining it in a blender eliminates the need for manual pulverization. A commercial machines produce a daiquiri with a texture similar to a smoothie, and they come in a variety of flavors as well. A frozen limeade can be used to make a daiquiri and will have the desired texture, sweetness, and sourness all at the same time.
