Blessing over beer

[Bugbear]

Well it is at least from the time when Franklin was alive but I do not know if it is his or not, but here is an old punch recipe I found.

One part sour
Two part sweet
Three part strong
Four part weak

Sour is some sort of citrus, often lemon or lime. Sweet would be sugar, strong would be the Rum, and weak I had originally heard was water but then I saw an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown said that weak was really black tea.

Interesting, but I think it was more detailed than that. I recall the history professor explaining the process of making sugar and molasses, and that the sugar was in some kind of hard, cone shape that was cut into chunks with a pair of pinchers or something like that.
It was about seventeen or eighteen years ago, so hard to remember.