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Caipirinhas

Cachaça is a potent sugarcane liquor. If you can’t find it, use light rum instead.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 6

Ingredients

3

limes, halved

1

/4 cup sugar

1

1/2 cups cachaça

Need to make a substitution?

Preparation

  1. Place a lime half in each of 6 tumblers, and sprinkle each with 2 teaspoons sugar. Using a wooden reamer, crush the flesh of the limes. Fill the glasses with crushed ice, and divide the cachaça evenly among them. Stir well, and serve.

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Reprinted with permission from The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The New Classics by Martha Stewart Living Magazine, copyright © 2007. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of The Crown Publishing Group. Buy the full book from Amazon.