Recipe - Cuba Libre

Ingredients:
4 cl rum
½ lime
coke (to fill up glass)
2-3 ice cubes
Decoration:
a slice of lime

Preparation:

Cuba libre

Press out lime and pour juice into a longdrink glass.

Pour rum (best is a brown Cuban rum) in the glass, add ice cubes and fill up with coke.

Cut the lime slice to the middle and garnish.

Serve with a straw.

Note: Cuba Libre translates from Spanish as “free Cuba”. The cocktail Cuba Libre originates in Havana, Cuba. However, now this cocktail is served throughout the world.

A lemon can also be used instead of a lime, but it tastes that much more refreshing with lime juice.

I haven’t been able to visit Cuba yet, but when I ordered a Cuba Libre in Mexico, the barkeeper quipped: “¡Cuba Libre – La mentira más grande del mundo! ¿Por qué? ¡Porque Cuba no está libre!” (Cuba Libre - the biggest lie in the world! Why? Because Cuba is not free!) It seems Mexicans think more like Americans.

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