Cuba Libre

Components

  • Lime Cordial

Ingredients

  • 2 oz. aged rum

  • 4 oz. coca cola

  • 1 oz. lime juice or lime cordial

Directions

  • add ingredients to highball glass and stir

  • optionally muddle limes

↓ This is a component-based recipe (fancy talk for making the dish in pieces, then assembling). ↓

Lime Cordial

Ingredients

  • 190g or 6 oz. by volume of sugar

  • 8 oz. hot water

  • 1 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice

  • 1 1/2 oz. freshly grated lime peel

  • 1 oz. citric acid

Steps

  • zest approximately 2 limes

  • juice approximately 2 limes

  • boil water, then let cool (don’t add boiling water)

  • combine all ingredients in blender and blend on high for 30 seconds

  • strain into squeeze bottle and chill