This week’s entry is a Planter’s Punch recipe originally from Beachbum Berry Remixed found at Serious Eats:
It’s interesting that this recipe features dark rum, as most rum punch recipes tend to use light rum.
At last, someone has answered the question on all of our minds: exactly how much money do you need to have to be able to swim around in your own personal ocean of gold coins, just like Scrooge McDuck? Based on the assumed height of Scrooge as being roughly equivalent to that of an actual duck (I would quibble with this interpretation, but whatever) and a little calculus, Matt Powers of The Billfold estimates that you’d need $31.2 to be able to dive around in your mountain of gold like a porpoise (naturally you would need significantly less to be able to toss your coins up and let them hit you on the head; in fact, with $20 worth of Sacajawea dollars you could do this right now, which you totally should, and post a video of it to YouTube*).
My dad loves Carl Barks’ comics, and they were a huge part of my childhood. That image of swimming around in money always stuck with me. I won’t deny that there have been times when I’ve been about to deposit a paycheck in my bank account and I’ve thought to myself “I could totally convert this into dollar coins or quarters or something and put them in a big pile on the living room floor and roll around in it and not one single person could possibly stop me.”
Then I remember that money has germs on it.
But freshly minted gold coins don’t!
Did you know that there are a truly absurd number of recipes for rum punch? Go ahead and do a Google search, I’ll wait.
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There, see? Crazy. Something needs to be done. We need a definitive guide to rum punch! In the interest of helping humanity, I have decided to apply myself to the problem. Step 1: collect a bunch of rum punch recipes. Step 2: Prepare them, taste them, and review them. Step 3: Who needs a step 3 when step 2 is so much fun?
Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself a little. For now, I’m going to post some promising rum punch recipes, one a week for the next several weeks.
Incidentally, the Wikipedia entry on punch is surprisingly lovely. I feel the need to make a 17th century punch with tea, and I have a feeling a bourbon punch will appear in my home on the first Saturday in May.
The basic Caribbean rum punch follows the rhyming recipe “One of Sour, Two of Sweet, Three of Strong, Four of Weak,” i.e. one part lime juice, two parts simple syrup, three parts rum, and four parts water. (This is sometimes called “grog.”) To this bitters or grated nutmeg are sometimes added. But, like I said, there are lots of variants on this theme, many that replace all or part of the water with fruit juice.
So for this week, here’s a recipe from Bobby Flay, which is quite straight-forward:
Ingredients
Directions
Mix all ingredients together in a pitcher or punch bowl. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before serving. Garnish with orange or pineapple slices.
ime for a customer story, this time from a happy client in Canada enjoying his Havana Fedora. — Laurel
Hey Brent,
What can I say.
You know you can read all the descriptions, look at all the pictures and analyze all of the customer reviews, but only when you have the hat in hand can you appreciate the uniqueness and allure of the Panama. I know this may be old “hat” to you but my introduction to your hats came as a complete surprise. The intricate weave and the softness was totally unexpected. With my hat being on the low end of the price range, I can’t imagine what the pricier models must be like. It fits perfectly and the blocking is top notch. Thank you for that. I’m wearing at home right now watching the Stanley Cup playoffs. Not exactly a Havana hangout but I’m lovin’ it.
Anyway, just wanted to say how impressed I am with my fedora and to thank you for everything, mahalo…
Glenn (Canada)
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