# Caipirinha - tipical brazilian drink
Author: deia

**Caipirinha** to one person 

Put in a glass where you will server:

1 sliced lemon (green lime) with the shell and without the seeds

1 table spoon of sugar (or according to your taste).

\- Press the lemon with the sugar very well with a spoon.

Put some pieces of crashed ice and 1 dose of 'cachaça' (alchool of sugar-cane, tipical from Brasil). Mix everything.

It is called **caipiroska** when you use VODKA instead of cachaça.

You can put more 'cachaça' or vodka if you want it stronger.

Read more here: [http://www.deltatranslator.com/cachaca.htm#caipirinha](http://www.deltatranslator.com/cachaca.htm#caipirinha)

http://www.academiadacachaca.com.br/english/academia/index.html

## Comment 1
Author: Anne

That's a lovely drink indeed! I usually add a bit of soda water to dilute it though, and I use white rum instead of cachaça.

## Comment 2
Author: deia

Anne, when you use white rum, it's called **caipiríssima**.

## Comment 3
Author: Anne

Deia, thanks!! I've never tried cachaça - and I try not to collect too many different kinds of alcohol, the bottles take up so much space. Now I can go on drinking my caipiríssimas instead :)