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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pint of rum
  2. Punch

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. get hot without boiling, then pass it through a tammy, pour it into a bowl, set fire to it, and stir with a ladle having a little gullet to it, so as to facilitate the pouring into the glass.
  2. To make Rum Punch, add to the preceding receipt half a pint of rum.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Wooden spoon
  • Ladle
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Credit

From Memoirs of Alexis Soyer (1859), printed page 302, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21526771

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.