Recipe courtesy of Mary Sue Milliken
and
Susan Feniger
Island Rum Punch
- Level: Easy
- Yield: one serving
Ingredients
1-ounce white or golden rum
1 tablespoon lime juice, or to taste
2 teaspoons sugar, preferable raw, or more to taste
1-ounce water
Ice cubes
Directions
- In a short cocktail glass, mix together rum, lime juice, sugar, and water. Add ice cubes and stir. Adjust amount of lime and sugar to taste. Rum is a liquor made from sugar cane juice, fermented and distilled. It is common in the West Indies, when you order a simple punch, to be served a tray bearing icefilled glasses, a bottle of rum, some cutup limes, and a bowl of raw sugar. Everyone makes his or her own cocktail to taste.