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French Punch

From Mrs. Johnstone's cook book of tested recipes (1911).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Johnstone's cook book of tested recipes, by Johnstone, May Searles, Mrs. [from old catalog] (1911).

France

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

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Five pounds of dried apples
  2. a stick of cinnamon
  3. a teaspoon of sugar

Method

  1. F'ive pounds of raisins.
  2. Five pounds of dried apples.
  3. F'ive gallons of water.
  4. Put in an earthen jar for three days, stirring occasionally, then bottle and put a stick of cinnamon and a teaspoon of sugar in each bottle.
  5. Keep in cool place.
  6. The punch has fermented before bottling.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Mrs. Johnstone's cook book of tested recipes (1911), printed page 8, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsjohnstonescoo00john

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.