Crashy Zacher's Scamper Juice: punch, the shared libation, the communal drink.
Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
Holiday punch was out of fashion even in Charles Dickens' day, but he loved the old recipes for it. And as described in this
NPR story with David Wondrich on his book
Punch: The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl, punch was created by 17th-century British-empire-building sailors whose beer spoiled in tropical heat. They would have used rum and brandy and lots of it for
punch with serious punch.
Today for me it has a whiff of the 1950s, and does bring to mind sherbet for some reason, but as Wondrich points out in the NPR piece, punch is not a cocktail or pedestrian glass of generic Chardonnay—that is, an individual and isolating libation strategy. It is, rather, a ...
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