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Mojito (; ) is a traditional Cuban highball. Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, sparkling water, and mint. The original Cuban recipe uses spearmint or yerba buena, a mint variety very popular on the island. Its combination of sweetness, refreshing citrus, and mint flavors is intended to complement the potent kick of the rum, and has made this clear highball a popular summer drink. The cocktail has a relatively low alcohol content (about 10 percent alcohol by volume). When preparing a mojito, lime juice is added to sugar (or syrup) and mint leaves. The mixture is then gently mashed with a muddler. The mint leaves should only be bruised to release the essential oils and should not be shredded. Then rum is added and the mixture is briefly stirred to dissolve the sugar and to lift the mint leaves up from the bottom for better presentation. Finally, the drink is topped with whole ice cubes and sparkling soda water. Mint leaves and lime wedges are used to garnish the glass. The mojito is one of the most famous rum-based highballs. There are several versions of the mojito.〔(Cuban Mojito Recipe ) or (American Mojito Recipe )〕 == History == Havana, Cuba, is the birthplace of the Mojito, although the exact origin of this classic cocktail is the subject of debate. One story traces the Mojito to a similar 16th century drink known as "El Draque", after Francis Drake.〔 In 1586, after his successful raid at Cartagena de Indias Drake's ships sailed towards Havana but there was an epidemic of dysentery and scurvy on board. It was known that the local South American Indians had remedies for various tropical illnesses; so a small boarding party went ashore on Cuba and came back with ingredients for a medicine which was effective. The ingredients were aguardiente de caña (a crude form of rum, translates as ''fire water'' from sugar cane) added with local tropical ingredients; lime, sugarcane juice and mint. Drinking lime juice in itself would have been a great help in staving off scurvy and dysentery. Tafia/Rum was used as soon as it became widely available to the British (ca. 1650). Mint, lime and sugar were also helpful in hiding the harsh taste of this spirit. While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was still the original combination of these ingredients.〔 Some historians contend that African slaves who worked in the Cuban sugar cane fields during the 19th century were instrumental in the cocktail's origin. Guarapo, the sugar cane juice often used in Mojitos,〔 was a popular drink amongst the slaves who helped coin the name of the sweet nectar.〔 It never originally contained lime juice.〔Lands of the inner sea, the West Indies and Bermuda by Walter Adolphe Roberts in 1948〕〔Sky juice and flying fish: traditional Caribbean cooking by Jessica B. Harris in 1991〕 There are several theories behind the origin of the name Mojito; one such theory holds that name relates to mojo, a Cuban seasoning made from lime and used to flavour dishes.〔〔''Mojito'' is derived from the Spanish ''mojo sauce'', which often contains lime juice (see ("mojito" at Dictionary.com ), citing the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2006, Houghton Mifflin), while ''mojo'' is derived from the Spanish verb ''mojar'', meaning "to make wet" (see (definition 3 of "mojo" at Dictionary.com ), citing Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7), 2003-2007, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC)〕 Another theory is that the name Mojito is simply a derivative of ''mojadito'' (Spanish for "a little wet") or simply the diminutive of ''mojado'' ("wet"). Due to the vast influence of immigration from the Canary Islands, the term probably came from the mojo creole marinades adapted in Cuba using citrus vs traditional Isleno types. The Mojito has routinely been presented as a favorite drink of author Ernest Hemingway. It has also often been said that Ernest Hemingway made the bar called La Bodeguita del Medio famous as he became one of its regulars and wrote "My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita." This expression in English can be read on the wall of the bar today, handwritten and signed in his name, although Hemingway biographers have expressed doubts about such patronage and about the author's taste for mojitos. La Bodeguita del Medio is more known for their food rather than drink.〔Menu, La Bodeguita del Medio, Habana, Cuba in 1959〕〔All around the world cookbook - Page 282 by Sheila Lukins in 1994〕 A report created in 2014 states that the Mojito is now the most popular cocktail in Britain 〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2790208/our-cocktail-choice-s-mojito-combination-white-rum-lime-mint-soda-popular-sales-mixed-drinks-rise-10-cent-two-years.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「mojito」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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