Ti Punch
- Strong
- dry
A dry, strong cocktail, stirred until cold, served in an old fashioned glass.
Serve in: old fashioned glass
Ingredients
- 2 ozMartinique Blanc Rhum Agricole
- 0.25 ozsugarcane syrup
- 1 ozLime slice
- iceoptional
How to Make a Ti Punch
Instructions
- Pour the rum and sugar syrup into the glass.
- Squeeze the lime slice before dropping it into the drink.
- Stir and consider adding ice - either one large cube, or preferably, a small chunk of block ice.
Tips & substitutions
- No limes? Try lemons.
The glass
Serve this one in an old fashioned glass. The old fashioned glass or rocks glass is a short tumbler used for serving spirits, such as whisky, neat or with ice cubes. It is also normally used to serve certain cocktails, such as the Old Fashioned, from which it receives its name.
Did you know
Ti’ Punch is the national cocktail of French island Martinique. It is also popular in Réunion, Maurice, Haiti, French Guiana and other French-speaking Caribbean islands. On these islands, it's often drunk straight without adding ice and chased by a large glass of chilled water. The earliest known written mention appears as a yon Ti Punch in an 1890 book, Two Years in the West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn who was a travel writer.
