The cocktail appears in yet another book from the period, the 1931 Cuban Cookery – gastronomic secrets of the tropics with an appendix on Cuban drinks, as a "Rum Cocktail (Cuban mojo)". Lasa's Libro de Cocktail – The Cocktail Book which, as the due language name suggests, has recipes in Spanish followed by the same recipes in English. The cocktail then appears as "Mojo de Ron" in Juan A. Written in Spanish, this book was published in Cuba by the brewing company, Cervecera International. The first known recipe for the Mojito, appears under the name "Mojo Criollo" in the 1927 El Arte De Hacer un Cocktail y Algo Más. Others, who claim the cocktail was created by slaves brought to Cuba to labour in its sugarcane fields, say it comes from the African word 'mojo', meaning to place a little spell due to the drink's perceived medicinal value. Some say it comes from 'mojar', a Spanish verb suggesting wetness. The origins of the name 'Mojito' are equally misty. It reads, " My Mojito in La Bodeguita My Daiquiri in El Floridita." However, none of his books mention either the Mojito or La Bodeguita, nor does any letter or other piece of writing attributed to Hemingway. Urban myth credits Bodeguita del Medio bar in Havana with making the first Mojito and this is also apparently where Ernest Hemingway went for his, evidenced by a framed hand-written note written and signed by Hemingway hanging in the bar. However, some maintain Americans visiting Cuba's thriving bar culture between the wars, and especially during Prohibition, introduced the locals to the Mint Julep and it was this that led to the Mojito to be invented. The brand certainly promoted the cocktail in its early advertising. when aguardiente was replaced with rum, the Drake was to be called a Mojito." Bacardi may be behind the swapping out of the traditional aguardiente in the Draque to create the Mojito. As Frederick Villoch described in 1940 ". Then, at the same time when Don Facundo Bacardi Massó was establishing the Bacardi Company, the original recipe for the Draque changed. The drink stayed that way until the mid-1800s. In 1833, during one of the worst cholera epidemics ever to hit Havana, the author Ramón de Paula wrote, " Every day at eleven o'clock I consume a little Drake made from aguardiente and I am doing very well."
What is for certain is that the Draque was drunk for its perceived medicinal value. Some say the Draque was not originally Cuban and it was actually invented upon board Drake's ship which carried mint to mix with cane spirit, sugar and lime to make a drink to relieve fever and colds. That's the theory behind the Draque (Drake, Drak, or Drac), a drink consisting of aguardiente de caña (a crude cane spirit that was the forerunner of rum), sugar, lime and mint.
Havana was well-prepared, but everyone was amazed when, after several days of waiting, Captain Drake sailed away from the richest port in the West Indies after firing only a few shots.ĭrake left Havana and its gold intact, but his visit was a major event, something perhaps worthy of naming a drink after. King Philip II of Spain had warned his governor in Cuba of Drake's approach and of his intentions to take the Aztec gold stored in the city's royal treasury. In 1586 he dropped anchor off the Cuban shore, already with a cargo of Spanish treasure valued at twice the Queen's annual income but he was after even more. While the exact origins of the Mojito cocktail and its name are lost in time, some trace it back to 1586 and a medicinal drink named after Sir Francis Drake.įrancis Drake was one of a band of privateers sponsored by England's Queen Elizabeth I to plunder Spanish cities in the New World and seize their riches.
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