Recipe

• 30ml lime juice

• 15ml sugar syrup

• 10–15 mint leaves

• 40ml white rum

• Soda water (about 30ml)

Put the lime juice, syrup and mint in a Collins glass, and mash it all up a bit with a spoon. Add a splash of soda water, then fill the glass with crushed ice, add the rum and top up with soda water. Garnish with half a lemon slice and another mint leaf. Add a straw, and stir as best you can.

Nice and refreshing, with simple mint and lime flavours that balance well with the sugar. I couldn't really taste the rum, which perhaps makes this dangerous.

I'm not sure where crushed ice comes from. I used the remains from the end of a bag of ice, which included a lot of little shards as well as a pile of frost. Maybe next time I'll be breaking out rolling pins and god knows what else.