Nancy’s Rum Punch

Nancy’s Rum Punch

Even though this is a fairly well known recipe, I attribute it to Nancy as she is the one that shared it with me. Nancy sails on SV Larus with her partner Tim. They are both very experienced sailors with years of experience in the charter industry where Nancy worked as cook and hostess. We met Larus on the Southern New England rally in July 2017. Like us they head up to Maine but we never saw them as they where always a week or two ahead of us.

Our tracks crossed just outside the entrance channel to St Georges, Bermuda in November 2017. They were heading in after 3 days of heavy weather sailing and we were headed out, bound for Antigua. We spoke briefly on the VHF radio. Finally in December we caught up in Antigua. It was in Antigua where Nancy shared this recipe and the little rhyme to help remember the ingredients.

1 of sour

2 of sweet

3 of strong &

4 of weak

a dash of bitters and a grate of nutmeg.

Sour = lime juice

Sweet = sugar syrup (2:1)

Strong = rum

Weak = water

Here we are at Shirley Heights overlooking English and Falmouth Harbours in Antigua enjoying a rum punch at sunset.