Comments for Life got you down?

Life got you down?

2004-10-15T11:25:07Z

"Artillerymen believe the world consists of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets."
- Unknown

Infantry annoying you? Tankers running through your positions knocking over your aiming posts and collimators? Did some signal unit just set up some huge farking antenna (read: target) back by the battalion trains? Were the log weenies unable to tell the difference between M1 105mm HE and M393 105mm HE? Are you out there among the unwashed, lending dignity to what is otherwise a vulgar brawl when some weasel with a scarf around his neck who will sleep on a cot in a building tonight drops a Mk84 200 meters away? Need something to celebrate or mourn the results of the upcoming elections?

Then you need some of this: Cheatham Artillery Punch. From the aptly-named Argghhh! Senior (second of three generations of Gunners) comes this recipe:

This is separate loading ammo:
1 1/2 qt dry red wine (catawba preferred)
1 pint St. Croix rum
1 cup London dry gin
1 cup three star brandy
2 oz Benedictine
1 1/2 cups rye whiskey
1 1/2 quart strong tea
10 oz brown sugar
5 oranges, sliced
5 lemons, sliced
4 quarts champagne (all the above are propellant)
1/2 bottle maraschino cherries (cannon balls!) Heck use the whole thing!

Mix all ingredients except champagne and fruit slices. stir until sugar is dissolved. Store in refrigerator in tight containers for five to seven days.

Just before serving add champagne and fruit slices (and warning label).
Dad

You can get wasted just eating the cherries.

Hat tip to the Gunners New Zealand for some graphics, too! And welcome to visitors from Carnival of the Recipes #9! If you're of a militant mind, check around the rest of the place - if you are a placid, gentle soul (or a gun-hating type) ya prolly oughta just swipe the recipe and run! 8^D

Comment from Justthisguy on 2004-10-16

2004-10-16T22:40:52Z

Have you thought of using a big old 18th Century mortar as a punchbowl for that? I seem to recall reading that Washington and his guys did so.

Comment from Alan on 2004-10-15

2004-10-15T13:38:20Z

I went to Kings College in Halifax which has close ties to the navy. In WWII it was an officer's training facility and listed as HMCS Kings. Somewhere along the line, the Nazis published that the scholl had been sunk off Iceland. Anyway, we had a traditional party punch called gunpowder punch due to the 7-2-1 ratio. In the case of the punch it was red wine, port, brandy. Mulling spices and old apples added. Served warm.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2004-10-15

2004-10-15T13:21:36Z

It comes from the Brits, which is where the 'e' comes from, and it's much more fun to make it yourself... the gentle sigh from the fermentation when you open up the container... good muzzle blast!

Comment from Bill on 2004-10-15

2004-10-15T13:12:26Z

You can get this ready made in Savannah at The River House and The Shrimp Factory. Excellent beverage. Potent too. They leave out the "e" Chatham Artillery Punch.