1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

"The chiefe judling they mal{e in the Islands Barbados is Rum bullion, alias Kill-Devil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hott, hellish, and terrible Liquor." 1651 Rum Drinks From time immemorial rum has been distilled as a by product of the manufacture of sugar in all countries where sugar cane isgrown. As a liquor it became the ac cepted beverage practically everywhere that strong drink was in demand, and with the spread of its popularity all lusty liquors, regardless of origin, were termed "rum." In the early days blackstrap molasses, fromwhich rum was distilled, was shipped from Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Cuba, and the Barbados into staid New England. True rum is a spirit distilled from "dunder" and molasses. Dunder is t^en from the Spanish word redundar, meaning overflow, and applied to the lees or dregs of cane juice used in the fermentation of rum. The word "rum" is an abbreviation of rumbullion, meaning tumult or uproar—^not an inappropriate application! North American Indians had their own name for the drink—they called it "cootv tvootv," a sort of improve ment on their customary war whoop. Remember the ditty sung by the pirate crew in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!" Cuba holds the palm for producing the best rum, al though staid old New England has made excellent rum from imported blackstrap molasses since 1680, and Lou isiana's sugar plantations today contribute their share of excellent domestic brands. More than a century ago Louisiana's rum masqueraded under the name of tafia. There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion." Lard Byron's Don Juan, 1819. Fifty-nine