Message 25375 of 39188 in General Discussion

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 > Maybe, but you forgot to mention water, so rum, sugar,lime juice and 
> water sounds more like a punch than a Daiquiri :

I can see what your saying, but in Admiral Vernon's defence, it was a real 
problem preserving ice on his ship and he never packed a boston tin and glass 
on his trips. This meant that he added water to account for the dilution in a 
freshly shaken Daiquiri........ ;)

On a serious note, what I was getting at was that the Daiquiri recipe MUST 
have been created before Jennings Cox claimed it! The Admiral Vernon story is 
one that shows that people were, virtually, making Daiquiri's 150+ years 
before the date we generally credit it to!

> ...Vernon grew tired of losing so many men to drunken incidents that 
> he ordered their daily ration of rum to be diluted with water and 
> served out in halves (half at noon, other half at sunset)...
> I knew Admiral Vernon story, but he never served to his men just rum, 
> sugar & lime, but he added water, so maybe if he had skipped the 
> water, he could have been the one who created the early daiquiri.
> Don't you think so?

Don't you just love the story though, loads of drunken sailors pissed up on 
Natural Daiquiri's? I believe this story and would be sure that at some point 
on his many trips that he DID make what we call a Natural Daiquiri today!

Cheers,

Adam

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