Fish House Punch

Fish House Punch

Info

Rating
Calories
573.0
Sodium
8.0

Description

This punch — containing rum, Cognac, and peach brandy — is potent. If it packs a bit too much of a wallop for your taste, you can dilute it with cold black tea, a common mixer for this particular punch, or with seltzer water, for a bit of fizz. Some punch bowls may not be big enough to accommodate the size ice block we call for — feel free to use other freezing containers that are more suitably shaped. And though the block is a classic part of this recipe, you can, of course, simply serve the punch in a pitcher over ice cubes.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
3 1/2 cups water
1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (6 to 8 lemons), strained
1 (750-ml) bottle Jamaican amber rum
12 oz Cognac (1 1/2 cups)
2 oz peach brandy (1/4 cup)
Garnish: lemon slices
Special equipment: a 1/2-gallon cardboard juice or milk carton, top (spout) end cut off

Directions

  1. To make ice block, fill carton with water and freeze until solid, about 8 hours (see cooks' note, below).
  2. Stir together sugar and 31/2 cups water in a large bowl or pot until sugar is dissolved. Add lemon juice, rum, Cognac, and brandy and chill, covered, at least 3 hours.
  3. Put ice block in a punch bowl and pour punch over it.