Daiquiri Cocktails - Classic Rum and Frozen Strawberry Recipes
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Daiquiri History - No More Gin For Gimlets? Pour Some Rum On It
Named for a small Cuban village east of Santiago, the Daiquiri cocktail is said to have been invented by a mining engineer from the United States during or shortly after the Spanish-American War of 1898 after running out of gin. History supposedly credits Jennings Cox who was the General Manager for the Spanish American Iron Company with the drink recipe, but there are many doubters. After all, rum had a storied past in the Caribbean long before the conflict along with readily available lime and sugar sources in the local area. Surely somebody had already combined these three ingredients together before.
