Caipirinha

Step 2

Cut a ripe lime in half (from pole to pole) and remove the core from each half by cutting a cut a v-shaped grove

Step 3

You'll need one-half of the lime per drink and this should be chopped into wedges and each wedge chopped in half before dropping the resulting 6 or 8 lime chunks into the base tin of a shaker

Step 5

Add 3 bar spoons powdered sugar (or ½oz / 15ml sugar syrup 2:and MUDDLE

Step 7

If using cubed ice straight from the freezer, add chilled water (or optionally add fruit of choice) and MUDDLE some more

Step 8

If using watery ice then omit some or all of the water/juice

Step 10

When sure the limes's juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, POUR the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz hi-ball glass)

Step 12

POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the shaker tin used to muddle and swirl to rinse tin before pouring cachaça into serving glass

Step 13

STIR to mix with other ingredients

Step 15

If using cubed ice, crack (rather than crush) four to five large ice cubes using an Ice Tapper and drop into serving glass

Step 16

STIR before topping with more ice and serve with a stirrer (but no straws)