Recipe

• 60ml white rum

• 15ml sugar syrup

• ¾ lime

Chop the lime into about ten pieces and throw them into a cocktail shaker. Get a rolling pin and bash them up. Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice and pour it into the shaker. If the ice is not already crushed, give it another few bashes with the rolling pin. Add the syrup and rum, shake thoroughly, and then empty it straight into the old-fashioned glass, ice and all. Serve with a short straw.

You definitely need a blender to make crushed ice; hitting it with a rolling pin is not very effective. Still, there's something pleasingly simple about the "throw it all in" approach, compared to the fiddly way of making and drinking a mojito, adding ingredients in the right order and so on. I might take this approach with mojito-esque drinks in the future.

As for the taste, it's fine. Refreshing and enjoyable, but without an interesting twist of any kind. It's a lot like a daiquiri, but very dilute. I probably wouldn't have it again, since other, similar, better drinks exist!