Canchánchara

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The Canchánchara is a cocktail with rum , honey and lime that originated in Cuba . With a basic spirit, a sweet and a sour component, it basically belongs to the Sours family .

history

The Canchánchara is considered to be the first cocktail developed in Cuba. There are no reliable sources for the origin of the drink. According to the prevailing opinion, it goes back to workers in the sugar cane plantations of Cuba in the 19th century who had access to the ingredients still used today. In tourism portals and travel literature in particular, the development of the drink is attributed to the Mambises , Cuban independence fighters in the Ten Years' War . The central Cuban coastal city of Trinidad is often handed down as the place of origin . The Mixology magazine traces the invention of the daiquiri back to the Canchánchara, which confirms the 19th century as the date of origin for the latter.

preparation

There is no official IBA recipe . Generally rum, lime juice and honey are mixed together until the honey has dissolved. The drink was originally served in an earthen cup, and calabashes are also known as the original drinking vessels. Today it is primarily served in tumbler glasses, but clay cups are also still popular. In its original form, the drink was sometimes heated before serving. Today, however, the Canchánchara is served on ice cubes, which have been available in Cuba as an imported luxury item since the 1810s, but did not find their way into everyday culture until the 20th century. The Mixology magazine suspected of drink on Cuban sugar plantations as original sweetening ingredient in case of emergence of molasses instead of honey.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CubaLlama.com: The canchánchara, the first Cuban cocktail in history. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c DrinksMotion.com: La canchánchara, el primer cóctel cubano de la historia. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Mixology.eu: Canchánchara. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Havana-Club.com: Cancha: The long drink version (sic) of (sic) Canchánchara. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Mixology.eu: History of Bacardi, Part 3: The Bacardi Cocktails ( Memento from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ MiamiHerald.com: Go Drink This: Canchánchara. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
  7. ^ Anne Cooper Funderburg: Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History of American Ice Cream . Popular Press, Madison 1995, ISBN 978-0-87972-692-8 , pp. 45 .