Recipe for a Caipirinha Winter Wallop

1 lime cut up and crushed

1 or 2 tablespoon(s) of sugar

- crush the lime and sugar together to make a syrupy mix -

1 to 2 shots of cachaça (spelled cachaca in English)

- add the liquor to the mix and combine -

1 cup or more of fresh snow
(or about a half cup of cracked ice cubes with water if snow not available)
- A pretty girl or two adds extra spice -

Cachaça is available in large liquor stores but vodka may be substituted if cachaca cannot be found

 

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More about Cachaca (cachaça)
 It's a Brazilian liquor made from distilled sugar cane juice.   Many Brazilians make their own and it really is a "white lightning". 

Rum, cachaca's cousin, is distilled from the extract of sugar cane which is molasses.

Cachaca is distilled directly from the juice of the unrefined sugar cane. The juice is fermented in a wood or copper barrels, then boiled down to form a concentrate. Cachaca is distilled so that fragrance of sugar cane and a rum like flavor are maintained. 

 

Cachaca (cachaça) is also known as Aguardente in Brazil

 

Caipirinha is pronounced kai-pee-reen-ya (kai as in kayak)

Cachaca (cachaça) is pronounced ka-shaa-suh

The vodka Brazilian version of a Caipirinha is called a caipivodka but no self respecting Brazilian would use vodka if Cachaca (cachaça) is available

For everything you might want to know about Cachaca (cachaça), see this link http://www.deltatranslator.com/cachaca.htm