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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
A JAMAICA RUM SWIZZLE from a PLANTATION OVERLOOKING the
NoRTHERN, or WINDWARD, PoRT ANTONIO SECTION
Jamaica rum,
r
full
pint; or
2
measuring cups full
Lime, juice
8
small;
6
large; or
6
average lemons
Gomme
syrup or sugar,
4
tsp
Fresh mint,
r
doz sprigs
Mix liquids and sugar
in
pitcher with ice, frost with swizzle stick,
pour out into commodious glasses, and garnish with sprig mint, and
stick of fresh ripe pineapple, if some is handy.
WORDS to the LIQUID WISE No.
XVII,
NOTING that
PRACTICALLY any PLANTER'S PUNCH, if MULTIPLIED
SLIGHTLY into QUANTITY
&
SWIZZLED in a BOWL or
PITCHER, BECOMES a "SWIZZLE"
Don't
be
misled by the contradictory terms. A swizzle foundation
could be any of the Planter's Punches given here-the usual tech–
nique for which parallels that of the Mint Julep, insofar as cooling
goes.
THE FOUR so-CALLED "MALLINGHOLM SWIZZLES"-ALL
of AUTHENTIC PROPORTION and CoRRECT GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN,
&
furthermore MADE NoTABLE through the LoG of FREDERICK ABrLD–
GAARD FENGER, OWNER
&
MASTER of the ScHOONER
DIABLESSE
We seem to refer to Fritz Fenger quite a bit in this volume and if
we do it is because he has covered the West Indies as thoroughly and
intimately as anyone we know, and besides this is a gourmet and a
compounder of spirituous liquids both potent and astonishing to the
average landsman. Further than this he is a Danish-American yacht
architect dwelling-to the public shock of the B,oard of Selectmen
of whom he is a member-in the remote and pure·town of Cohasset,
in Massachusetts.
.
Back in the great sweep of Leeward and 'Windward Islands he is
still known as "de mon on de boat," dating clean back twenty years
or so when he sailed a canoe the size of an ample delicatessen dill
pickle-as we have already mentioned-from Trinidad slap to the
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