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Subject: Re: Caipirihna
From: Dom Costa
Posted: Wed Sep 13. 2000, 12:29 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Caipirihna"  by zyedgo  (Tue Sep 12. 2000, 19:47 UTC)
> > 
> > A caipirinha is not made with rum (which is a molasses distillate), 
> > 
> > but rather cachaca (pronounced cah-sha-sa), which is a Brazilian 
> > sugar cane distillate. 
> 
> I think your splitting hairs,Rum is made from fermented molasses or 
> sugar cane.
> Molasses here (in the usa) is made from from sugar cane or sorgum.In 
> the Dominican Republic it's  probably sugar cane molasses.I am 
> unfamiliar with the Dominican rum mentioned but but did drink 
> cahshasa while in Brazil.It is 190 proof and absolutly lethal.  

Jmere, you forgot to mention that in the preparation of caipirinha, according 
to brazilian tradition, crushed ice should be used rather than in cubes, and 
not necessarily caipirinha is prepared with such a high proof cachaca,(like 
zyedgo says) actually the cachaca used in almost every brazilian bar is just 
similar in proofs to any standard rum you drink around , by the way if you 
substitute cachaca with rum you obtain a Caipirissima, and with vodka you 
obtain a Caipiroska. Just in case you'd like to know, caipirinha means "little 
farmer girl", Saude!!!! Cheers

Dom Costa


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