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Planter's Punch
2 lumps of sugar
1 dash Peychaud bitters
1 lime—^juice only
1 jigger water
2 jiggers rum
The Planter's Punch calls for a tall glass. Squeeze the lime juice
on the sugar. Add the bitters, water, the two full jiggers of rum;
fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice. Frapp^ well with a long-
handled barspoon. Sift a little nutmeg on top or a dash of red
pepper if you don't mind the bite.
The southern planter had something there! If this
man-sized drink were indeed part of a planter's life on
a Southern plantation, there was more to his routine than
cotton bolls, sugar cane, slaves, and offspring. As we have
all along contended, good old sugar cane molasses rum
was the planter's stand-by, notwithstanding traditional
tales of the huge consumption of Monongahela red
whiskey.
Jamaican Planters' Punch
1 part lime juice
2 parts sugar
3 parts Jamaica rum
4 parts water and ice
A doggerel for this recipe runs: "One of sour, two of
sweet, three of strong, and four of weak," thus making
it easy to keep the proportions in mind. This is Planters'
Punch as it is made in Kingston, Jamaica, British West
Indies, where the rum is manufactured. For the regula
tion Planters' Punch a dash of Peychaud bitters must be
added. Shake and serve very cold.
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