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New York, January 22, 2005
Recipe for a Caipirinha Winter Wallop
1 lime cut
up and crushed
1 or 2
tablespoon(s) of sugar
- crush the lime and sugar together to make a syrupy mix -
1 to 2 shots of
cachaça (spelled cachaca in
English)
- add the liquor to the mix and
combine -
1 cup or more
of fresh snow
(or about a half cup of cracked ice cubes with water if snow not available)
- A pretty girl or two adds extra spice -
Cachaça is available
in large liquor stores but vodka may be substituted if cachaca cannot be found
How to make
Pao de Queijo
- Brazilian Cheese Bread AKA Brasilian cheese rolls at
BlackTieWhiteGlove.com
More about
Cachaca (cachaça)
It's a Brazilian liquor made from distilled sugar cane
juice. Many Brazilians make their own and it really is a "white
lightning".
Rum, cachaca's cousin, is distilled from the extract of
sugar cane which is molasses.
Cachaca is distilled directly from the juice of the unrefined sugar cane.
The juice
is fermented in a wood or copper barrels, then
boiled down to form a concentrate. Cachaca is distilled so that fragrance of
sugar cane and a rum like flavor are
maintained.
Cachaca (cachaça)
is also known as Aguardente in Brazil
Caipirinha is pronounced kai-pee-reen-ya (kai as in
kayak)
Cachaca (cachaça)
is pronounced ka-shaa-suh
The vodka Brazilian version of a Caipirinha is called
a caipivodka but no self respecting Brazilian would use vodka if
Cachaca (cachaça)
is available
