Daiquiri (No. 3)
Cuban Rum - 2 oz
Lime Juice - ½ oz
Grapefruit Juice - ½ tbsp
Maraschino - ½ tbsp
Superfine Sugar - ½ tbsp
Shake everything with ice and strain into a cocktail glass filled with crushed ice.
From Bar La Florida Cocktails.
The third version of the Daiquiri Cocktail from the famed La Florida (El Floridita) bar. This is the original Hemingway Special Cocktail created for Ernest Hemingway, it contains the same ingredients except the sugar part. Since Hemingway was later diagnosed with diabetes, the sugar was removed from the original Daiquiri (No. 3).
The lime used in those days are more likely smaller than the lime today, the juice of ½ a lime probably wouldn’t reach ½ ounce, but I went with that anyway. It’s hard to tell what’s the actual amount a “teaspoon” is in this book, it could be as low as ¼ tablespoon or as high as ½ tablespoon, I went with the ½ tbsp one to balance the lime juice.
