River Road Planter’s Punch

It’s my guess that most of the elaborate alcoholic punches that played such an important role at lavish social gatherings on the eighteenth-century rice plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry and on sugarcane and cotton plantations along the Mississippi River in Louisiana were imported from West Indian sugar plantations. Whatever their origin, the drink that evolved as planter’s punch may not be as popular today in and around Charleston and Georgetown, South Carolina, as it was two hundred