Champagne Punch
India
Known as an Indian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 8 ingredients
- twelve glasses of rum
- Water
- six pounds of fine-pounded sugar
- Cut
- Champagne
- French brandy
- twelve glasses of maraschino
- Limes
Possible health benefits
General information, not medical advice.
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Lime
High in vitamin C · 29 mg per 100 g, 36% of the reference intake per 100 g
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
11 more authorised claims
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
- Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
- Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
- Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
- Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
- Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
- Vitamin C increases iron absorption.
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet
Nutrients per 100 g of “Limes, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.
Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).
Cook safely
- Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.
Method
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- Take the rind cut very thin of twenty -four limes, and soak twenty-four hours in twenty-four glasses of hot French brandy ;
- then add the juice of forty-eight limes and six pounds of fine-pounded sugar, twelve glasses of rum, twelve glasses of maraschino, six bottles of champagne, six bottles of water ;
- let it stand for six or eight days in a vessel ;
- then strain it clear through a flannel bag ;
- bottle and cork it well.
- Smaller quantity made in the same proportions.
- If required for immediate use, pass the whole through a fine lawn strainer until it is perfectly clear ;
- bottle and cool it.
Plating
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