July 9, 2010 – 9:18 pm | by admin
From Recipes Let’s start the weekend right–with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke ( The Cocktail Chronicles ). Need more than one? Hit up the archives. Cheers! Holy smokes, it’s hot out there. With Independence Day behind us and the wide, sun-baked expanse of July and August before us, it’s good to have a few basic drink recipes banked away for those times when you want something cold and refreshing. And when it comes to basic, cold and delightful, few drinks can beat a Planter’s Punch . The Planter’s Punch flowed out of the rum-rich Caribbean well over a century ago, and its origins date back centuries. Originally a simple combination of a full-flavored rum with lime juice, sugar, some form of spice and plenty of ice, the Planter’s Punch morphed over the decades into elaborate concoctions containing pineapple juice, grenadine, several types of rum and so on, and the drink is the common ancestor of all those tiki drinks and punches that are once again in vogue. While messing with original recipes is often disdained in the cocktail world, the Planter’s Punch is the kind of laid-back drink that it’s best not to get too worked up about. Feel free to experiment with the basic recipe (this one is …
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