Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker halfway filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime slice and serve.

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Daiquiri (pronounced /'dk?ri/, Spanish: daiquir in Havana, Cuba. The Daiquir is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. In the book, he also suggests some variations, such as substitute part or all of syrup with grenadine. The name Daiquir is also the name of a beach near Santiago, Cuba, and an iron mine in that area, and it is a word of Tano origin. The cocktail was supposedly invented about 1800 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers. Among the engineers present were Jennings Cox, General Manager of the Spanish American Iron Co., J. Francis Linthicum, C. Manning Combs, George W. Pfeiffer, De Berneire Whitaker, C. Merritt Holmes and Proctor O. Persing. Although stories persist that Cox invented the drink when he ran out of gin while entertaining American guests, the drink evolved naturally due to the prevalence of lime and sugar. Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A tea...

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