Mojito local tropical ingredients: lime, sugarcane juice, and mint. Lime juice on its own would have significantly prevented scurvy and dysentery, and tafia/rum was soon added as it became widely available to the British (ca. 1650). Mint, lime and sugar were also helpful in hiding the harsh taste of this spirit. While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was the original combination of these ingredients. Some historians contend that African slaves who worked in the Cuban sugar cane fields during the 19th century were instrumental in the cocktail's origin. Guarapo, the sugar cane juice often used
Blow My Skull Off famous cocktail created in Australia". It is included in the 1864 Australian cookbook "The English and Australian Cookery Book". Cocktail historian Sebastian Raeburn has stated that Melbourne was "one of the great cocktail centres of the world." An alternate version of the cocktail in the mid-19th century in Australia was prepared using a mixture of porter, brandy, rum, lemon or lime juice, sugar and boiling water. Blow My Skull Off Blow My Skull Off, sometimes referred to as Blow My Skull, is a cocktail that originated in the mid-19th century in Australia, and at that time was prepared using rum,