"Five or Six Pecks of Apples Were Stolen" - A Sampling of Historic Drink Recipes to Try on
With New Year’s Eve right around the corner, it’s time once again to share some of our favorite historical drink recipes. A word of caution...we are not responsible if your guests get out of control, refuse to leave for days on end, try to shake you down for money or become extra “snugly” after consuming these punches.
Enjoy! Planter's Punch Rum This 19th Century drink has been said to have originated at the Planters Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. A description of the
"the first Lord in the younited States of A mericary" - The Crazy Antics of "Lord&quo
Ah…”Lord” Timothy Dexter, the man who easily personifies bat sh*t crazy. How this atrocious speller and outrageously eccentric character slipped through the cracks of American lore is beyond us. Timothy Dexter was born in Malden, Massachusetts on January 22, 1747. He apparently had little schooling and by the time he was eight years old he was employed as a farm laborer. As a teenager, he was an apprentice to a leather-dresser. When Dexter turned twenty-one, he left the ap
