Message 25381 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


Shure, nice story indeed, but I still believe african slaves created somehow 
the first Daiquiri, and this happened well before Admiral Vernon's "rum tot".
Actually aguardiente, guarapo and lime juice make an excellent drink even 
nowadays.
Dom