Strawberry Calpirinha

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

recipe is Portuguese

Source: Family Calendar Cookbook

Serves 2 people

Categories: beverage

Ingredients

  • 12 fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
  • 1 Tbsp. PLUS 2 tsp. granulated sugar
  • 1 lime, quartered
  • 1/4 cup white rum OR cachaca
  • ice

Directions

  1. Place the berries in a cocktail shaker and mash with them the sugar and 2 of the lime quarters using a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon. Add the rum and enough ice to fill the shaker; cover and shake well.
  2. Fill two cocktail glasses half-full with ice. Remove the lime quarters from the cocktail shaker and discard. Pour mixture over ice in glasses. Garnish each glass with one of the remaining lime quarters’

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