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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
LATIN AMERICA PUNCH, from a MouNTAIN PLANTATION HousE
out of SAN JuAN, PoRTO Rico
Carta de Oro
Bacardi rum, r
Yz
cups
Rhine wine,
2
pint bottles
Lemon juice, r cup
Thin small slices fresh pineapple
Orange curac;ao,
Yz
cup
Champagne, r qt
Orange juice, r cup
Sparkling water, r pint
Ice for two hours beforehand, pour in bowl with large lump ice,
have a gravy boat filled with fresh grated coconut kernel, and sprinkle
a level teaspoon on each glass as served.
Don't
use shredded coconut–
that is only for cakes and so on.
FRITZ FENGER'S PINEAPPLE "BOLA," which Is a PuNcH of
PARTS
Fenger's dossier has already been given at some length, and we will
merely state here that both the wording of this receipt and spelling
of the word "Bola" are his-this last presumably an anglicized ver–
sion of the old German word
Bowle,
or
Wein-Bowle.
The change
from "It" to "Her" is also interesting.
"For evening use: Right after breakfast stalk a ripe but unblemished
pineapple, and when agreeable, snatch it off its perch and take it home
where-in the intimacy of the butler's pantry-we remove first her head,
toes, hard heart, and finally her spiny corset.
"Dice her up very fine indeed and heap pieces and juices in a large punch
bowl and cover with powdered sugar. Pour on a bottle of good bourbon
or rye-not Scotch-and leave her lay
all day,
covered and safely beyond
reach or range of the great <lane. Meanwhile you can go back to your legiti-
mate work, if any.
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"After dinner sculp a piece of ice, at least
8"
on a side, place it in the
center
o~
the bowl and over this pour slowly, bottle by bottle, scads, shoals
and lashi?gs of chilled dry champagne to the number of 3 or 4 at least–
when a bit hard up use
Yz
champagne and
Yz
charged water, or
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Rhine
or Moselle and 113 charged water-only don't tell any Nazi I recom–
mended this last!
"Now
wi~h
a judicious ladle stir gently, just a trifle, to mix with the
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