Cachaça Recipe

As the Small Dead Animals contribution to the perpetual blog drink mixing meme, I offer this recipe.

I recieved a bottle of the sugar cane liquor that is the basis of Brazil's national drink as a going away gift from my Brazilian hosts in April. A couple of weeks ago I had friends staying for a couple of days, and we ran out of rum. Too late to run out for more. The obvious solution - open the liquor. Without the required ingredients (tropical limes, sugar) to make Caipirinha (pronounced ky-pee-reen-ya), we came up with our own recipe for the cachaça (pronounced oh-my-god-this-is-made-of-fermented-calf-scours ).

1 1/2 oz  cachaça
pour over ice
Attempt (vainly) to put tinfoil cap back on bottle to control odor.

Debate the wisdom of what you are about to do. "Give it a chance". .."They wouldn't go to the trouble of bottling this stuff if it tastes as bad as it smells" .... "maybe it's better with the limes" ... Hold breath... take slow sip.

Spit.

Invent new expetives.

Add 3 gallons of running water, flushed through mouth.

Take 1 regular kitchen sink. Again, holding breath, pour remainder of cachaça down drain. Add 3 cups vinegar, follow with 1 cup bleach, full strength. Remove empty bottle some distance from house. Open windows.

Re-evaluate everything you thought you knew about Brazilian compliments and generosity.