6/2/09

rum punch

When I was at Gadsby's Tavern Museum this weekend, I read about a poem Ben Franklin wrote describing punch (rum, sugar, fruit juice, water):

"Boy, bring a bowl of China here,
Fill it with water cool and clear:
Decanter with Jamaica right
And spoon of silver, clean and bright.
Sugar twice-fin'd in piece cut,
Kni[f]e, sieve and glass in order put,
Bring forth the fragrant fruit and then
We're happy till the clock strikes ten."

-Benjamin Franklin

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