1939 The Gentleman's Companion volume II Beeing an Exotic Drinking Book

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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