CAIPIRINHA
Take one lime, cut the tips of the top and tail off and then cut the lime into eight chunks. Add the lime pieces to a glass tumbler (use a thick, strong glass). Add three bar spoons (or teaspoons) of caster sugar over the top.
Using a muddler or round ended rolling pin, crush the sugar and lime together. As you push the muddler down into the lime, twist it so that the abrasive texture of the sugar cuts into the skin of the lime to release the oil. Add a little crushed ice (so that the glass is half filled) and then add 50ml of cachaça. Take a bar spoon and fold the ice, lime, sugar and cachaça together, and add more crushed ice so that it sits proud above the drink. Why the Telegraph loves Caipirinha...