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

Mississippi Planter's Punch , HiV p 1 tablespoon sugar 1 lemon—juice only Vz jigger rum /4 jigger Bourbon whiskey 1 jigger cognac brandy Dissolve the sugar with a little water in a mixing glass. Add the lemon juice, then the rum, Bourbon, and brandy. Fill with fine ice, clap on the shaker, and go to work. When well frapped pour into a long thin glass. Decorate with fruit (if you want to be swanky) and serve with a straw. If this cooler doesn't make a Mississippi cotton planter forget about the boll weevil, charbon, and high water, give up trying to make him forget. All that is lacking in the recipe is a shady gallery, a rocking chair, and a palmetto fan. Tangipohoo Planter's Punch 1/3 pineapple juice 1/3 orange juice 1/3 lime or lemon juice 1 teaspoon grenadine sirup 2 jiggers rum After mixing and sweetening to taste with the grenadine, add the fruit juice, the two jiggers of rum, and put plenty of ice in the tall glass. Jiggle with the barspoon until well frapped. "Aw, nertz!" said a friend of mine who likes to furnish his inner man with certain powerful potables several times a day, "the dope you wrote on the opposite page ain't a Planter's Punch! Leastwise," he hedged, "it ain't what we folks up in Tangipahoa call a Planter's Punch. As a result of this criticism I cajoled from him the above recipe. Ever notice how all recipes for Planter's punches call for two jiggers, and never one, of rum? That, you'll agree, is a redeeming feature. So don't be thrifty with the oh-be-joyful when you concoct a punch by this or any other recipe. Sixty-five