Caiprissimo in question photographed by Wendell T. Webber
In this week’s Dining & Wine section of the NYT, they published a recipe for Blueberry Maple Caiprissimo, which calls for Cognac, maple syrup, rosemary, blueberries and lemon juice. I thought caiprissimo may have been an alternate spelling of caipirÃssima, so I did a little research.Â
You might remember my posting on cachaça, where I gave a recipe for a caipirinha. Well, if you substitute white rum for the cachaça, it’s called a caipirÃssima. If you opt for vodka, it’s caipiroska or caipivodka and with sake, it becomes caipisake.
I couldn’t find a definition or any other cocktail using the spelling caiprissimo, other than where the Times had adapted it from: Food & Wine Cocktails 2009. Is it the Cognac? Is it because it’s blended?Â
Any way you spell it, these drinks should be on your list of summer refreshment.
A Thirsty Spirit 
You make “learn something new every day” so very tasty. Cheers.
I’ve been vacationing and working in Brazil for 17 years. Yes, there are lots of variations on the basic caipirinha, but using “caiprissimo” for that drink is just wrong, misspelled or not.
To answer, I mylesf would first need some clarification as to your use of anonymous , which strikes me as eccentric. The Federalist Papers are obviously pseudonymous rather than anonymous, while The House of the Rising Sun is traditional rather than anonymous.Or if we want to think that way, both The House and Whiskey are obviously anonymous in the sense that some specific person came up with them, we just don’t happen to know their name. But the parts of folklore whose authorship is lost to the mists of time are precisely what is usually called traditional and not anonymous , and both songs fall under this category equally well.
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