Ti’ Punch

Martinique's national drink.

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The Ti’ Punch is Martinique’s national cocktail, and the island’s answer to America’s Old-Fashioned. Traditionally the drink (pronounced “tee paunch” in the Caribbean—”ti” being the Creole variant of the French petit) includes a heavy dose of Martinique’s rhum agricole rounded out with touch of lime juice and a splash of cane syrup, a Caribbean sweetener reduced down from raw sugarcane juice (though simple syrup will do perfectly well in a pinch).

Ingredients

Serving: 1

  • 2 ounces rhum agricole
  • 2 ounces rhum agricole
  • 1 barspoon cane syrup
  • 1 barspoon cane syrup
  • 1 lime coin
  • 1 lime coin

Garnish: lime peel coin

Directions
  1. In a rocks glass, add a splash of cane syrup and a squeeze of lime.
  2. Add rhum agricole and a few ice cubes.
  3. Stir gently and garnish with a lime coin.