MOJITO

Touted as author Ernest Hemmingway’s favourite drink, Mojito is originally a traditional Cuban highball                                   

60g white sugar

12 sprigs of fresh mint

6 lemon slices, thinly sliced

300ml lemon juice

250ml white rum

Crushed ice

Chilled soda water, to serve

Divide the sugar, mint leaves, lemon slices equally in two serving glasses. Add lemon juice and white rum in a cocktail shaker. Shake well and pour it equally into the glasses; add crushed ice to this mix and top it with soda water and mint leaves.