Recipe for "Cinpac Special"

ADMIRAL NIMITZ recipe for the Old Fashioned Mix which he calls " CINPAC SPECIAL FRUT 1 clean one-gallon - jug NARA 3 quarts Bourbon 1/4 of a fifth of gold label rum Add sugar syrup cautiously until you can just detect the presence of sugar. Fill remainder of jug with tap water. Desirable but not necessary: drop two whole vanilla beans into the jug to stay for many refills of jug. They last for years. Pour generous portions over ice and serve it forth! This recipe was developed by Admiral Nimitz when he was Commander in Chief of the Pacific at a time when liquor was rationed, a bottle a week to a man and frequently rum was the only kind available. ADMIRAL NIMITZ mother's recipe for Cactus Fruit Jelly, from early days in Texas. The Hawaiians call it Panini jelly. Pick half ripe cactus fruit with long handled meat fork to avoid spines. Place in pail and let water run into it to clean fruit. Put fruit in big pot, spines and all, and slice it in the pot. Add half cup of water and cook until the fruit is well done. Then put in strainer and strain out juice, straining several times through double flour - sack cloth. 4 cups of cactus juice 3-1/2 cups of sugar juice of two lemons 1/2 bottle of certo. Boil juice, sugar, and lemon juice for half hour, then put certo in, and boil again for five minutes. Pour into-sterilizedglass - jars and let set overnight. If sub stance does not jell, boil again for ten minutes.