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Pina Colada

Ingredients:

  • 90 ml Dark Rum
  • 3 tbsp Coconut Milk
  • 3 tbsp crushed Pineapple
Method:
  1. Place all the ingredients in blender.
  2. Add two cups of crushed ice and blend at high speed for about half a minute.
  3. Strain into a tall tumbler and serve.

Tip: All alcoholic beverages are either fermented or distilled. Your fermented beverages are beer and wine. Your distilled beverages are vodka, whiskey, rum, liqueurs, etc.

Cuba Libre

Ingredients:

  • 60 ml Dark Rum
  • Juice of half Lime
  • Coca-cola to top up
Method:
  1. Half-fill a tall tumbler with ice cubes.
  2. Add the rum and lime juice and stir well.
  3. Top up with coca-cola and decorate with lime-slices.

Tip: Sparkling wines and champagnes should be served thoroughly chilled.

White Witch

Ingredients:

  • 8-10 Ice cubes
  • Juice of ½ Lime
  • Soda water to top up
  • ½ measure Cointreau
  • 1 measure White Rum
  • ½ measure White Creme de Cacao
  • Slices of Orange and Lime to decorate
Method:
  1. Put 4-5 ice cubes into a cocktail shaker and pour in the rum, Creme de Cacao, Cointreau and lime juice.
  2. Put 4-5 ice cubes into an old-fashioned glass.
  3. Shake the drink, then strain it into the glass.
  4. Top up with soda water and stir to mix.
  5. Decorate with slices of orange and lime and serve with straws.
  6. Serves: 1

Tip: Keep vodka in the freezer for best results.

Daiquiri

Ingredients:

  • Cracked Ice
  • Juice of 2 Limes
  • 1 tsp Sugar syrup
  • 3 measures White Rum
Method:
  1. Put lots of cracked ice into a cocktail shaker.
  2. Pour the lime juice, sugar syrup and rum over the ice.
  3. Shake thoroughly until the frost forms.
  4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Tip: Glasses can be frosted by being chilled in the refrigerator or by letting crushed ice sit in them for a short while.

Bacardi Special

Ingredients:

  • 25 ml Gin
  • ½ tsp Sugar
  • 60 ml Bacardi light rum
  • Juice of a small Lime
  • A Lime wheel for garnishing
Method:
  1. Shake all the ingredients together (except the rum) with ice.
  2. Then add the rum and shake again.
  3. Once cold, strain into the chilled rocks glass.
  4. Garnish with the lime wheel.

Tip: While pouring two or more blended drinks, pour a little at a time into each glass to endure all the glasses have the same proportion of froth and other ingredients.

St Lucia

Ingredients:

  • 4-5 Ice cubes
  • 25 ml Curacao
  • 1 tsp Grenadine
  • Juice of half Orange
  • 25 ml Dry Vermouth
  • 50 ml White or Golden Rum
  • Orange rind spiral and cocktail cherry, to decorate
Method:
  1. Put the ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Pour in the Curacao, dry vermouth, orange juice, grenadine and rum over the ice. Shake until a frost forms.
  2. Pour without straining, into a highball glass.
  3. Decorate with an orange and spiral and a cocktail cherry.

Tip: Eat something before and during alcohol consumption. This slows the absorption of alcohol. Fats and carbohydrates are best for slowing absorption. Sugars intake prevents hang-overs. Cakes and pastries are the party food that has lots of all three.

Blue Hawaiian

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz White Rum
  • 1 oz Blue Curacao
  • 1 oz Heavy Cream
  • 1 oz Pineapple Juice
  • 1 tsp Coconut cream
Method:
  1. Shake ingredients with ice
  2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass to make this lurid blue libation.

Tip: Sparkling wines and champagnes should be served thoroughly chilled.