{"id":915644,"date":"2012-04-19T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brentblack.com\/cart\/?p=915644"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:25:38","slug":"rum-punch-recipe-showdown-entry-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.brentblack.com\/cart\/2012\/04\/19\/rum-punch-recipe-showdown-entry-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rum Punch Recipe Showdown, Entry 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you know that there are a truly absurd number of recipes for rum punch? Go ahead and do a Google search, I\u2019ll wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I\u2019m getting ahead of myself a little. For now, I\u2019m going to post some promising rum punch recipes, one a week for the next several weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally, the\u00a0Wikipedia entry on punch<\/a>\u00a0is 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The basic Caribbean rum punch follows the rhyming recipe \u201cOne of Sour, Two of Sweet, Three of Strong, Four of Weak,\u201d i.e. one part lime juice, two parts simple syrup, three parts rum, and four parts water. (This is sometimes called \u201cgrog.\u201d) To this bitters or grated nutmeg are sometimes added. But, like I said, there are lots<\/em> of variants on this theme, many that replace all or part of the water with fruit juice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So for this week, here\u2019s a\u00a0recipe from Bobby Flay<\/a>, which is quite straight-forward:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n