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Fine Milk Punch

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United Kingdom

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. ten gallons of wine
  3. a pound of this powder
  4. two quarts of water
  5. one quart of brandy
  6. ten gallons put
  7. one quart of milk
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Cook safely

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

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Take two quarts of water, one quart of milk, half-a-pint of lemon-juice, and one quart of brandy, with sugar to your taste ;
  2. put the milk and water together a little warm, then the sugar and lemonjuice ;
  3. stir it well together;
  4. then the brandy, stir it again, and run it through a flannel bag till it is very fine, and bottle it.
  5. It will keep a fortnight or more.
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  7. To recover Wine that has turned sharp .
  8. — Rack off your wine into another vessel, and to ten gallons put the following powder : take oyster-shells, scrape and wash off the brown dirty outside of the shells, and dry them in an oven till they will powder.
  9. Put a pound of this powder to every nine or ten gallons of wine;
  10. stir it well together, and stop it up ;
  11. let it stand to settle two or three days, pr till it is fine.
  12. As soon as it is fine, bottle it off, and cork it well.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon