INGREDIENTS:
1 lime quartered or sliced
2 teaspoons of sugar
2 shots of cachaça
1/2 Cup of crushed ice with water

PREPARE:
Place the lime and sugar in the bottom of a glass.
Using the handle of a wooden spoon, crush and mash the limes.
Pour in the cachaça and ice.
Stir well.
Enjoy.

Cachaça is Brazilian sugarcane liquor

Cachaça, also known as Aguardente, is a spirit distilled from sugarcane. It is one of the most popular drinks in Brazil. It is the liquor used to make caipirinha and batidas.

While rum is distilled from molasses, cachaça is distilled directly from the juice of the unrefined sugar cane. Before distillation, the juice ferments in a wood or copper container for three weeks, and is then boiled down three times to a concentrate. Cachaça is always distilled in such a way that the scent of sugar cane and inimitable flavour, typical of rum, are retained.

An alternative recipe!

Many thanks to Viviane in Brasil for this donation.
	Wash your hands and take some limes, a tree-full should do it.
Wash and cut them into chunks.
	Place in a large bucket.
Take your Cachaça from the freezer.
	Four should be enough.
Add sugar to taste, start with 2 teaspoons per lime.
	Use one of the (clean) bottles and trouble it with the butt! Not too much as the rind will make the brew turn bitter.
Empty your four bottles into the potion and mix well.
	Fill to the brim with ice and apply straws. Then call your friends!