Pronounced "kuy-per-REEN-yah,", Henry Ford tried to outlaw this drink in Fordlandia, his Amazonian suburbia in Brazil during the '30's but the natives had other ideas. After all, when the auto tycoon's workers arrived, the Brazilians had been more than accommodating: They learned to square dance, stayed awake through what most US citizens wouldn't have - poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - and worked hard harvesting rubber for Model-T tires. They accepted the quinine, but most probably couldn't bring themselves to drink it as Ford's Americans suggested - straight or with lime juice. Instead, they did what Brazilian common sense dictated - they mixed it with their fiery national spirit, cachaça in hopes of creating something close to a Caipirinha.
2 ounces cachaça and a lime quartered and muddled in a teaspoon of simple syrup. Served in a cool tumbler peaked with ice, the Caipirinha is a serious sling with a bite reminiscent of tequila tamed by rum.
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