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Mississippi Planter's Punch , HiV p
1 tablespoon sugar
1 lemon—juice only
Vz jigger rum
/4 jigger Bourbon whiskey
1 jigger cognac brandy
Dissolve the sugar with a little water in a mixing glass. Add the
lemon juice, then the rum, Bourbon, and brandy. Fill with fine
ice, clap on the shaker, and go to work. When well frapped pour
into a long thin glass. Decorate with fruit (if you want to be
swanky) and serve with a straw.
If this cooler doesn't make a Mississippi cotton planter
forget about the boll weevil, charbon, and high water,
give up trying to make him forget. All that is lacking
in the recipe is a shady gallery, a rocking chair, and a
palmetto fan.
Tangipohoo Planter's Punch
1/3 pineapple juice
1/3 orange juice
1/3 lime or lemon juice
1 teaspoon grenadine sirup
2 jiggers rum
After mixing and sweetening to taste with the grenadine, add the
fruit juice, the two jiggers of rum, and put plenty of ice in the
tall glass. Jiggle with the barspoon until well frapped.
"Aw, nertz!" said a friend of mine who likes to furnish
his inner man with certain powerful potables several
times a day, "the dope you wrote on the opposite page
ain't a Planter's Punch! Leastwise," he hedged, "it ain't
what we folks up in Tangipahoa call a Planter's Punch.
As a result of this criticism I cajoled from him the
above recipe. Ever notice how all recipes for Planter's
punches call for two jiggers, and never one, of rum?
That, you'll agree, is a redeeming feature. So don't be
thrifty with the oh-be-joyful when you concoct a punch
by this or any other recipe.
Sixty-five