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Canchánchara cubain

Name: Canchánchara cubain
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: CU
Ingredients: 240 ml aguardiente (raw sugarcane spirit) or white rum; 60 ml raw honey, preferably dark cane honey; 120 ml fresh lime juice (about 4 limes); 120 ml cold water; to serve crushed ice; 4 lime wheels, to garnish (optional)

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Cocktail rustique cubain au rhum, au miel et au citron vert, servi sur glace pilée.

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Portions

4portions

Ingrédients

Nutrition

calories190

protein0g

carbs19g

fat0g

fiber0g

Par portion

Étapes

Dissolve the honey

In a small jar or shaker, pour the honey and fresh lime juice together. Stir or shake well until the honey is completely dissolved into the juice; this is the key step, because honey resists mixing once alcohol is added, so it must dissolve in the acid first.

60 ml honey
120 ml lime juice

✅ C'est prêt quand : the mixture looks smooth and no honey streaks remain at the bottom

Add the spirit and water

Pour the aguardiente or rum and the cold water into the honey-lime mixture. Stir well so everything blends into one balanced, pale amber mix.

240 ml aguardiente or rum
120 ml cold water

✅ C'est prêt quand : the liquid is evenly mixed with no cloudy honey streaks

Fill with ice

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Pour and stir

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Dissolve the honey

60 ml honey
120 ml lime juice

✅ C'est prêt quand : the mixture looks smooth and no honey streaks remain at the bottom

Add the spirit and water

Pour the aguardiente or rum and the cold water into the honey-lime mixture. Stir well so everything blends into one balanced, pale amber mix.

240 ml aguardiente or rum
120 ml cold water

✅ C'est prêt quand : the liquid is evenly mixed with no cloudy honey streaks

Fill with ice

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Pour and stir

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History & Culture

The Story Behind the Dish

📍 Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus province📅 19th century, colonial era🍯 CU

Canchánchara is said to have been born among farmers and sugar workers in the hills around Trinidad, who mixed the raw cane spirit distilled on local farms with honey from their own hives and lime from the yard, because that was simply what was on hand. It later became linked to the mambises, Cuba's 19th-century independence fighters, who are said to have drunk it before battle for courage and warmth.

It is still served today in Trinidad's old town, often in small clay cups, as a point of local pride and one of the country's oldest known cocktails.