How To Make Founding Fathers' Plantation Punch

  • June 18, 2009
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Celebrate America’s birthday the way the Founding Fathers might have, by whipping up a batch of Plantation Punch.

You Will Need

  • 12 oz. bourbon
  • 6 oz. sugar
  • 24 oz. rum
  • Ice
  • 48 oz. sparkling water
  • 6 oz. port
  • One orange and two lemons, sliced
  • A large bowl
  • A strainer
  • A punch bowl
  • Sweet sherry
How To Make Founding Fathers' Plantation Punch: Mix ingredients

Step 1: Mix ingredients

Pour the first three ingredients into a bowl, stir briskly with ice until the sugar is dissolved, and then strain into a punch bowl.

How To Make Founding Fathers' Plantation Punch: Stir in the water

Step 2: Stir in the water

Stir in the water.

How To Make Founding Fathers' Plantation Punch: Float the port

Step 3: Float the port

Float the port on top.

Substituted sweet sherry for port.

How To Make Founding Fathers' Plantation Punch: Garnish with fruit

Step 4: Garnish with fruit

Garnish with orange and lemon slices.

How To Make Founding Fathers' Plantation Punch: Toast the colonies

Step 5: Toast the colonies

Do as the newly liberated colonists did: Make 13 toasts, in honor of the first American states.

The recipe for Plantation Punch is thought to have been invented in the 17th century.

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