Drink · 6 min · Amounts not specified
Planter's punch
Rum, citrus, sugar, bitters. Fruit juice is a guest, not the drink.
The sheet · 1 tall glass · 6 min
easyWhy tonight. Rum, citrus, sugar, bitters. Fruit juice is a guest, not the drink.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- rum
- lime
- orange
- simple syrup
- angostura
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: pineapple.
Method
- One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak — the same rhyme as the punch bowl, built in a single glass.
- Dark Jamaican rum, lime, syrup and water or juice over crushed ice.
- Angostura floated on top in quantity — a good six dashes, which sounds like too many and is not.
- Grate nutmeg over it. Between the bitters and the nutmeg, the aroma is half the drink.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
The technique underneath this
Going wrong while you cook it? Say what it is doing and the triage will tell you what is happening, the smallest move, and the instinct to resist.
Watch the technique behind this one
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- Cocktail structureBasic Cocktails - How To Make A DaiquiriCocktail ChemistryThe plainest sour there is, which makes base-acid-sweet balance easy to taste rather than merely read.197K+ views at the September 2026 review. · Link checked 2026-09-08
- Syrups and citrusHow to make Cocktail Syrups: Simple, Ginger, Honey and Raspberry Vol. 1The Educated BarflySimple, ginger, honey and raspberry syrups in one sitting. The bar prep nobody films.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Syrups and citrusHow to Make Fresh Juice for CocktailsEpicuriousJuicing citrus fresh for drinks, and the plain reason bottled juice does not work.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rum
- The widest spirit on the shelf.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- orange
- Sweeter and rounder than lemon and lime, so it softens rather than sharpens.
- simple syrup
- Sugar already dissolved, which is the only form of sugar that works in a cold drink.
- angostura
- Bitters are seasoning for a drink — the salt of the bar.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
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Corn 'n' oil
Barbadian: dark rum, a spoon of molasses, lime, bitters. Stir. It should look like oil and taste like lime, not gingerbread.
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Jungle Bird
Campari and rum with pineapple, which is the only tiki drink that is genuinely bitter. Pineapple juice foams if you shake it hard, and it should.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.