Planters Punch

The Planters Punch is a generic Rum punch based around the following: 1 sour, 2 sweet, 3 strong, 4 weak.

Historical References

===NEW YORK TIMES, 8 August 1908

"PLANTER'S PUNCH"

• This recipe I give to thee,
• Dear brother in the heat.
• Take two of sour (lime let it be)
• To one and a half of sweet,
• Of Old Jamaica pour three strong,
• And add four parts of weak.
• Then mix and drink. I do no wrong--
• I know whereof I speak.

• Where thermo's top the highest notch
• In th' Caribbean isle,
• Where only fools drink rye and Scotch,
• Yet man awakes most vile,
• They drink this ere the sun is up;
• For when the sun is high,
• The thirst horn of this morning cup
• Would scorn to swallow rye!

• To rickey ever wore the crown
• That crests this royal punch,
• But, after it pour nothing down
• Till you have had your lunch.
• The sunshine and the sugarcane
• Allay the tropic lot,
• And this same punch removes the bane
• Where days are always hot.
• STEPHEN CHALMERS.