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When: after dinner
Where: in a small cocktail cup
Ingredients
1/10 of pomegranate syrup
3/10 of lemon juice (or of LIMMI)
6/10 of white rum
Preparation
Put some ice cubes in the shaker and add the ingredients. Shake well for 6 seconds and pour in a very cold glass (chill it in the freezer for at least 15 minutes). Serve.
The cocktail small cup is the one you usually used for "martini"or short drinks of 60cc. It should always have to be chilled before serving your drinks.
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Did you know that...?
The origin of cocktail seems to be very ancient and some people maintain that it is just from Italy that cocktail went out to France, England and in America. And lemon, as an ingredient, spice or garnishing, is an ingredient present in most of the most well-known cocktails.
It is a drink composed of two or more spirits, mixed or shaked ( shekerati ). Literally in Italian cocktail would be a "tail of cock " ( from the English cock=gallo and tail=coda).
The word perhaps refers to the layers of colour which the various ingredients formed, or to the wealth of the garnishings these drinks were and are served with: slices of lemon or of other fruit, leaves, flowers and other coloured decorations.
Cocktail in fact could also come from the English cock ale, that is cock's beer, a drink which, in 1700, was given to drink to fighting cocks and that the same winner gamblers drank: the drink was decorated with feathers taken from a cock's tail, in different number depending on the ingredients...
On the contrary, according to the tales of the English sailors, ancient Maya offered to their Gods ( to gain their favour ) alcoholic mixtures they were used to mix with a long spoon named "cock's tail". And another legend linked to those places tells of a young man of Maya origin who, to marry the daughter of a powerful man from Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico, offered a propitiatory potion to her parents who, delighted, bestowed him their daughter's hand. It seems the maiden's name was, precisely, "Cochtil"!
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Alcoholic Cocktails 
