Rack Punch is shorthand for Arrack Punch. See Arrack Punch. The antiquated, eighteenth-century colloquialism crops up in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair as well as in Jerry Thomas’s How to Mix Drinks. See also Thomas, Jeremiah P. “Jerry.”
The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
Rack Punch is shorthand for Arrack Punch. See Arrack Punch. The antiquated, eighteenth-century colloquialism crops up in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair as well as in Jerry Thomas’s How to Mix Drinks. See also Thomas, Jeremiah P. “Jerry.”