The Bar-tender's Guide/Light Guard Punch

The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks (1887)
by Jerry Thomas
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Light Guard Punch.

(For a party of twenty.)[1]

  • Take 3 bottles of Champagne.
  • Take 1 bottle of pale Sherry.
  • Take 1 bottle of Cognac.
  • Take 1 bottle of Sauterne.
  • Take 1 pineapple, sliced and cut in small pieces.
  • Take 4 lemons, sliced.

Sweeten to taste, mix, cool and serve as directed in the recipe for “Rocky Mountain Punch,” page 77.


  1. This is sufficient for a mixed company of twenty, not twenty of the Light Guard.