To Serve Man
Rum

Doctor Funk

Glass
Collins

Donn Beach's anise-tinged Jamaican rum cooler named after Robert Louis Stevenson's Samoan physician.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (1 oz)
  • fresh lemon juice (0.5 oz)
  • grenadine (0.5 oz)
  • Pernod (0.25 oz)
  • dark Jamaican rum (2.5 oz)
  • crushed ice (1 cup)
  • soda water (1.5 oz)
  • mint sprig (1)

Instructions

  1. In a shaker combine fresh lime juice, fresh lemon juice, grenadine, Pernod, and dark Jamaican rum with crushed ice.
  2. Shake hard until chilled.
  3. Pour unstrained into a 12oz chimney glass and top with soda water.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Sources

  1. Berry, Intoxica! (2002), Doctor Funk entry, documents the Bernhard Funk / Robert Louis Stevenson namesake, the c. 1937 Don the Beachcomber dating, and the lost-recipe reconstruction. ↩
  2. Bergeron, Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide, Revised (1972), p. 151, Vic's published version, which corroborates Donn's earlier Hollywood spec while folding it into the Trader Vic catalog. ↩
  3. Atomic Grog (Hurricane Hayward), "Lost Cocktails of the Mai-Kai: The Late Dr. Fong Has a Funky and Famous History." https://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2013/02/03/lost-cocktails-of-the-mai-kai-the-late-dr-fong-has-a-funky-and-famous-history/ (accessed 2026-05-03), discusses the c. 1953 Palm Springs lime adjustment and the historical lime-overpour transcription issue. ↩