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

Planter's Punch

2 lumps of sugar 1 dash Peychaud bitters 1 lime—^juice only

1 jigger water 2 jiggers rum

The Planter's Punch calls for a tall glass. Squeeze the lime juice on the sugar. Add the bitters, water, the two full jiggers of rum; fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice. Frapp^ well with a long- handled barspoon. Sift a little nutmeg on top or a dash of red pepper if you don't mind the bite. The southern planter had something there! If this man-sized drink were indeed part of a planter's life on a Southern plantation, there was more to his routine than cotton bolls, sugar cane, slaves, and offspring. As we have all along contended, good old sugar cane molasses rum was the planter's stand-by, notwithstanding traditional tales of the huge consumption of Monongahela red whiskey.

Jamaican Planters' Punch 1 part lime juice 2 parts sugar

3 parts Jamaica rum 4 parts water and ice

A doggerel for this recipe runs: "One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, and four of weak," thus making it easy to keep the proportions in mind. This is Planters' Punch as it is made in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies, where the rum is manufactured. For the regula tion Planters' Punch a dash of Peychaud bitters must be added. Shake and serve very cold. Sixty-four