Batida paulista (brazilian rum with lemon juice)

1 cocktail

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 teaspoons Egg white
2 tablespoons Sugar; superfine (powder?)
2 ounces Cachaca; Brazilian Rum, or
;any other light rum
1 ounce Lemon juice, fresh
4 Ice cubes
1 Lemon slice; paper thin
4oz. Old Fashion Glass, cold

Directions

Combine the egg white and sugar in a mixing glass, and stir with a bar spoon to dissolve the sugar. Add the cachaca or other rum, lemon juice an dice cubes. Place a bar shaker on top of the mixing glass and, grasping the glass and shaker firmly together with both hands, shake them vigorously 9 or 10 times. Remove the shaker, place a strainer on top of the glass and pour into a chilled old fashioned glass. With a small, sharp knife, slit the lemon slice from the peel just to the center, and use the slit to hold the slice on the rim of the glass.

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Source: Time Life Series: Latin American Cooking MMed by: earl.cravens@...

Submitted By EARL CRAVENS On 12-24-94

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