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Curaçoa Punch

A historical recipe from Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly v, by Edward Spencer (1897).

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A historical recipe

Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious, by Edward Spencer (1897). Project Gutenberg eBook #43278.

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. one tablespoonful of sifted sugar
  2. one wine

Method

  1. Put into a large tumbler one tablespoonful of sifted sugar, one wine-glassful of brandy, the same quantity of water, half a wine-glassful of Jamaica rum, a wine-glassful of curaçoa, and the juice of half a lemon;
  2. fill the tumbler with crushed ice, shake, and drink through straws.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly v, by Edward Spencer (1897). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #43278 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43278). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.