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more appropriate than a demon rum drink be named for
this angel of mercy?
The hostess who strives to give her guests something
deliciously different can do no better than fix upon a
Rum Runner. But she must be prepared for many re
peats. They always come back for more.
If you want a Pilgrim's Progress—substitute grapefruit
juice for the pineapple juice. Then you'll know why the
Pilgrim fathers came over on the Mayflower, landed on
Plymouth Rock, and entered into the business of dis
tilling rum from molasses. It was to provide our an
cestors with the Spirit of '76.
Jean Laffite Cocktail
1 teaspoon sugar
2 dashes absinthe substitute
2 dashes curagao
1 jigger rum
1 egg yolk
Mix in a barglass. The absinthe goes on the sugar, then the
Curasao. Muddle. Add the jigger of rum and drop in the egg
yolk. Clap on shaker and go to it. Strain into a chilled cocktail
glass.
Let us hope that when Jean Lafiite, the bold, bad, Ba-
rataria buccaneer, swaggered up and down the narrow
banquettes of rue Royale he had something like the above
mmind. Hardly, however, as it was years post-dating the
LaflSte regime before ahsynthe cast its greenish glow
over Crescent City bars, and how it desolates us to think
of Jean, brother Pierre, Dominique You, Rene Beluche
and the balance of the doughty crew of smugglers going
thirsty for the lack of an Absinthe House.
Whether or not Jean Laffite ever sampled the cocktail
Sixty-seven