Ti' Punch Cocktail Recipe
Martinique's everyday short drink: grassy rhum agricole, cane syrup and a squeezed disc of lime.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 40%
- Difficulty: Easy
- Prep time: ~3 min
Ingredients
- White rhum agricole60 ml (2 oz)
- Cane sugar syrup10 ml (0.3 oz)
- Lime disc with peel1 piece
How to Make It
- Pour the cane syrup into an old fashioned glass.
- Cut a thin disc of lime with a little peel attached, squeeze it over the glass and drop it in.
- Add the rhum agricole and stir briefly with a bar spoon.
- Serve neat, or with a single small ice cube if you prefer.
Garnish
The squeezed lime disc, dropped back into the glass.
What it tastes like
It smells of lemon and lime peel, the spirit is right out front and it hits hard.
The technique
Built in the glass. Ice goes into the serving glass, the ingredients go on top, and you stir once if at all. Anything carbonated goes in LAST and never gets stirred; every turn of the spoon costs you bubbles. Fill the glass to the rim with ice: less ice melts faster, not slower.
Glass and ice
A heavy-bottomed, wide old fashioned glass. Wide enough for one large cube, which is the point: a big cube has less surface area, so the drink gets cold without getting watery.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- White rhum agricole
- Rum distilled from FRESH cane juice rather than molasses; it carries a grassy, vegetal edge. Made with molasses rum the drink turns rounder and sweeter, and that grassiness is gone.
- Cane sugar syrup
- A syrup from cane sugar, darker and faintly molasses-like next to a plain white-sugar syrup. Simple syrup stands in, but that depth is lost.
- Lime disc with peel
- A disc of lime cut with its peel on; its job is the oil in the skin, not the juice, so it is pressed rather than squeezed.
The Story
The everyday drink of Martinique and the French Antilles, made with rhum agricole distilled from fresh sugarcane juice. Custom holds that each drinker mixes their own, to their own taste.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Ti' Punch mixed?
- It is built in the glass and served in an old fashioned glass.
- How strong is a Ti' Punch?
- Roughly 40% ABV as served — a spirit-strength drink — sipped slowly, and it wants a glass of water beside it.
- Can a Ti' Punch be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Ti' Punch hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
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