Planter's Punch (1908)

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   OED has 1924 for "planter's punch."  No hits in the American Periodical Series.


   8 August 1908, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 4:
      _PLANTER'S PUNCH_
This recipe I give to thee,
   Dear brother in the heat.
Take two of sour (lime let it be)
   To one and a half of sweet,
Of Old Jamaica pour three strong,
   And add four parts of weak.
Then mix and drink.  I do no wrong--
   I know whereof I speak.

Where thermo's top the highest notch
   In th' Caribbean isle,
Where only fools drink rye and Scotch,
   Yet man awakes most vile,
They drink this ere the sun is up;
   For when the sun is high,
The thirst horn of this morning cup
   Would scorn to swallow rye!

To rickey ever wore the crown
   That crests this royal punch,
But, after it pour nothing down
   Till you have had your lunch.
The sunshine and the sugarcane
   Allay the tropic lot,
And this same punch removes the bane
   Where days are always hot.
      STEPHEN CHALMERS.