Long story short, we had some leftover watermelon.

Short story long: we get a box of vegetables every week from a local farm. Lately, this has been including watermelon. Naturally, this firehose of vegetation has lead to me cooking a bit more than usual.



So I cooked a meal of tortilla soup (the recipe directed using lime wedges as a garnish) and cornbread and watermelon.

My partner decided to use his lime wedge on everything, including the watermelon. It was surprisingly good.

Well, add rum to watermelon and lime juice, and boom, daiquiri.

I actually did this the next day with the leftover watermelon slices. The result is a drink I consider up there with some of my other favorites, including Aviation and Cockpit Country. There was the whole angelic chorus going off in my head when I took my first sip.

The other watermelon we have is now doomed.

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3 oz white rum

1 oz lime juice

½ oz sugar syrup

1 cup watermelon chunks

Equipment: muddler, shaker

Glass: cocktail

Garnish: watermelon wedge, lime twist

Muddle the watermelon chunks. Add the sugar syrup, lime juice, rum and ice. Shake until frosty. Strain into glass and garnish.



Feel free to cut back on the sugar syrup, it is a tad on the sweet side.