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Fine Milk Punch

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 11 ingredients

  1. Punch
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. one pint of boiling water
  4. Rum
  5. one large lemon
  6. a teaspoonful of nutmeg
  7. a quart of rich unskimmed milk
  8. a quart of water
  9. a quart of brandy
  10. Must
  11. Rub
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Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Lemon High in vitamin C · Source of protein

    High in vitamin C · 53 mg per 100 g, 66% 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

    Source of protein · 1.1 g per 100 g, 15% of the energy from protein

    • Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Lemons, raw, without peel”, 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

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.
  • 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

  1. Pare off the yellow rind of four large lemons, and steep it for twenty-four hours in a quart of brandy or rum.
  2. Then mix with it the juice of the lemons, a pound and a half of loaf-sugar, two grated nutmegs, and a quart of water.
  3. Add a quart of rich unskimmed milk, made boiling hot, and strain the whole through a jelly bag.
  4. You may either use it as soon as it is cold, or make a larger quantity (in the above proportions), and bottle it.
  5. It will keep several months.
  6. piece of wire and bend it around a small piece of brimstone the size of a bean;
  7. _ set the brimstone on fire, put it in the jar or bottle, bending the other end over _.
  8. the mouth of the vessel, and cover with a cork;
  9. after the brimstone has burned away, fill the vessel with the syrup or preserves and cover tightly.
  10. There is no a ree, TO MAKE HOT - PUNCH, ae a aebae pint of rum, half a pint of brandy, quarter of a pound of sugar, one large lemon, half a teaspoonful of nutmeg, one pint of boiling water.
  11. Rub the sugar over the lemon until it has absorbed all the yellow part of the skin, then put the sugar into a punch- bowl;
  12. add the lemon-juice (free from pips), and mix these two ingredients, well together.
  13. Pour over them the boiling water, stir well together, add the rum, brandy, and nutmeg;
  14. mix thoroughly and the cesses of mixing must be diligently attended to.
  15. (This is an old-style punch.)

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve