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The Hemingway Daiquiri

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Why you are pouring this tonight

Also known as the Papa Doble. Ernest Hemingway ordered these without sugar (he was diabetic) at La Floridita in Havana in the 1930s, replacing sugar with maraschino liqueur and adding grapefruit juice. Serious, dry, bracing.

What changes from the Daiquiri

No sugar. Maraschino liqueur added. Pink grapefruit juice joins the lime.

What to pour it alongside

Oysters, ceviche, salted nuts. Drink with food that pushes back.

The recipe

The Hemingway Daiquiri cocktail variation of The Daiquiri. Food & Drinks recipe photo.

The Hemingway Daiquiri

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Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings: 1 cocktail
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: Cuban
Calories: 520
Ingredients Method Nutrition

Ingredients
  

  • 60 ml white rum
  • 20 ml fresh lime juice
  • 20 ml fresh pink grapefruit juice
  • 10 ml Luxardo maraschino liqueur

Method
 

Method
  1. Shake all with ice hard for 12 seconds.
  2. Fine-strain into a chilled coupe.
  3. No garnish; the drink doesn’t need one.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 520kcal
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