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Hot drink · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Hot Rum Punch

A hot Jamaica rum punch sweetened with dissolved sugar and finished with lemon peel.

Served in Tumbler.

Variants (5)

Haney's Steward & Barkeeper's Manual by Jesse Haney & Co. (1869, p.12) — Haney 1869

1 thin peellemon peel acid
1 wine glassJamaican rum — Jamaica rumbase
2 wine glassboiling water dilution
2 lumpsugar — Dissolved in a wine glass of water.sweetener
  1. Dissolve the sugar in water in the tumbler, add rum, add the remaining boiling water, and drop in a thin piece of lemon peel.

Garnish: Thin lemon peel

Daly's Bartenders' Encyclopedia by Tim Daly (1903, p.113)

1 dashlemon juice acid
1 wine glassMedford rum base
1 lumpsugar — Source allows one or two lumps.base
0.5 glasswater — Use to dissolve the sugar.dilution
nutmeg — Grate a little on top.other
  1. Dissolve the sugar in the water in a hot water glass and add the lemon juice and Medford rum.
  2. Spoon well, grate a little nutmeg on top, and serve.

Garnish: Freshly grated nutmeg

Daly frames it explicitly as a cold-weather reviver.

The Buffet Blue Book by John H. Considine (1912, p.37)

4 dasheslemon juice acid
1 piecelemon peel acid
1 jiggerrum — Substituted for whiskey.base
2 lumpssugar base
hot water — Enough to dissolve the sugar and fill the glass.dilution
nutmeg — Grate on top.other
  1. Prepare the drink in the same manner as Hot Whiskey Punch, substituting rum for whiskey.
  2. Stir with a spoon, grate nutmeg on top, and serve.

Garnish: Lemon peel and grated nutmeg

Ice: None

This entry is explicitly substitution-based in the source.

Bartenders' Guide: How to Mix Drinks by Wehman Bros. (1912, p.56)

2 dashlemon juice — Lemon juiceacid
1 wine-glassrum — Rumbase
1 teaspoonsugar — Sugarbase
2 wine-glasswater — Boiling waterdilution
  1. Combine the sugar, lemon juice, and rum, fill with boiling water, stir well, and serve.

Ice: Ice

The Up-to-Date Bartender's Guide by Harry Montague (1913, p.33)

1 piecelemon peel — Twisted over and dropped in.acid
1 jiggerrum — Substituted for Irish whiskey.base
1 lumpsugar — Dissolved with a little hot water.base
hot water — Fill up.dilution
nutmeg — Sprinkled on top.other
  1. Substitute rum for Irish whiskey and proceed as for Hot Irish Punch.
  2. Serve hot with lemon peel and nutmeg.

Garnish: Lemon peel and nutmeg

Source is explicitly substitution-based.

Lineage reconciliation

See also: Hot Irish Punch, Hot Whiskey Punch

Source says to substitute rum for Irish whiskey and proceed as for Hot Irish Punch.