
History
The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba (then at the tail-end of the Spanish Captaincy-General government) at the time of the Spanish–American War of 1898. It is also possible that William A. Chanler, a US congressman who purchased the Santiago iron mines in 1902, introduced the daiquiri to clubs in New York in that year.
Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice, and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of white rum completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted with a long-handled spoon. Later the daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled coupe glass.

Classic Daiquiri
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 ounces light rum
- 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1/2 to 3/4 ounce simple syrup, to taste
Directions:
- Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with large ice cubes.
- Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Serve and enjoy.