Drink · 4 min · 1 small rocks glass
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Martinique bones: rum, a disk of lime, a little sugar. Build, don't shake. The drink is the rum. Don't turn it into a daiquiri.
The sheet · 1 small rocks glass · 4 min
easyWhy tonight. Martinique bones: rum, a disk of lime, a little sugar. Build, don't shake. The drink is the rum. Don't turn it into a daiquiri.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- rum
- lime
- sugar
Method
- Rhum agricole if you can get it — the drink was built on cane juice rum and tastes grassy and strange with anything else.
- A thin disc of lime with the peel still on, squeezed and dropped in, cane syrup, then rum.
- No ice, traditionally, or one small cube. It is meant to be a small strong drink taken quickly.
- The saying is chacun prépare sa propre mort — everyone makes their own. Hand over the bottle and let them.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rum
- The widest spirit on the shelf.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- sugar
- Not just sweetness — it balances acid and bitterness, which is why a sour drink and a tomato sauce both want a little.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares rum, lime, sugar
Grog
Rum, lime, sugar and water — the original naval ration and the ancestor of every sour on this list.
Shares rum, lime, sugar
Banana daiquiri
Ripe banana, rum, lime, a little sugar. Shake hard. Frozen is honest if it is blended. Don't make a smoothie and call it a daiquiri.
Shares rum, lime, sugar
Batida de coco
Brazilian coconut batida without cachaça: rum, coconut, lime. Shake. Not a piña colada.
Shares rum, lime, sugar
Caipirinha-style
Cachaça if you have it; rum if not. Muddle lime with sugar, don't turn it to pith.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.