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Cider Punch

A historical recipe from I Go A-Marketing, by Henrietta Sowle (1900).

A historical recipe

I Go A-Marketing, by Henrietta Sowle (1900). Project Gutenberg eBook #55566.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From I Go A-Marketing, by Henrietta Sowle (1900). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #55566 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55566). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. If you really long for drinks which seem suitable for days the "saddest of the year," why then see to it that your cider jug is filled with sweet cider as a prerequisite, and go ahead.
  2. Call your first effort a cider punch.
  3. Peel a lemon and pour half a pint of sherry on the peeling;
  4. to the juice of the lemon add a cupful of sugar, a little grated nutmeg and a quart of cider.
  5. Mix this together thoroughly and then add to it the rind of the lemon and the sherry.
  6. Let it get perfectly cold on the ice, or if you are short of time ice it when serving.
  7. Now if you wish to make this punch a bit more insidious you can easily do so by adding to it a wineglass of brandy.
  8. It will be quite as palatable also, I think you will find.