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Caipirinha Recipe Posted by Rachel on Sep 14, 2010
After learning about the origins of the caipirinha last week, let’s learn how to make it! To practice, we’ll look at a recipe in English, and then another in Portuguese. Caipirinha Recipe For each serving, you’ll need: Half a lime, cut into quarters 1 teaspoon of white sugar 2.5 oz of cachaça 1 cup of…
How is Cachaça Made? Posted by polyana on May 4, 2010
This past week I was visiting my family in Minas Gerais, a state in Brazil famous for its friendly residents with funny accents & sayings, pão de queijo (or cheese, overall) and cachaça! Cachaça is a traditional Brazilian liquor made of sugarcane juice (as opposed to molasses which is the difference between cachaça and rum) and…