I love Christmas and everything that goes with it. The tree, decorations, and especially the food!! Let’s start with a holiday drink, coquito.
The the name coquito came from “ron con coco” or rum with coconut, a drink made by workers in the cane fields in Puerto Rico. Rum is obtained from cane sugar by fermentation, distillation, and aging. By adding sugar cane molasses to the distilled rum and coconut milk, they obtained a sweet concoction that was called “ron con coco” or rum with coconut.
So how does ron con coco turn into coquito?? When North Americans arrived in Puerto Rico in the 1800’s, they shared Eggnog, and it was blended and fused into our own drink called coquito. Some say coquito has to have eggs, some do not. It freaks me out to drink something that has been sitting in the fridge that has raw eggs? No thank you. There are many different versions of this drink, and this is my version.
Coquito
Ingredients:
1 can condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
1 can cream of coconut
1 can coconut milk
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Pinch of salt.
Now here is a step by step tutorial on how to put it all together. It’s bilingual too, spanish and english
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