Hartley Augiste’s Rum Punch

Name: Hartley Augiste’s Rum Punch
Yield: Serves 1
Cuisine: Dominica
Ingredients: Maraschino cherry; 3 or 4 ice cubes; 2 or 3 dashes Angostura bitters; 3 teaspoons simple syrup; ½ oz. lime juice; 2 oz. Dominica rum, or use a light rum from Martinique or Guadeloupe

Preparation info

Serves
1

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

By Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

Published 1973

About

Dominica produces some glorious rum. The tiny mountainous island lying between Martinique and Guadeloupe also produces glorious limes, and is in fact the home of Rose’s Lime Juice. The combination of rum and lime produces the best rum punch I have ever had.

Ingredients

2 oz. Dominica rum, or use a light rum from Martinique or Guadeloupe
½ oz. lime juice<

Americas
Dominica
Vegan
Gluten-free
Drinks
Caribbean

Method

Combine the rum, lime juice, simple syrup, bitters and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain over ice cubes in a small tumbler. Garnish with the cherry.