Milk Punch

From 1000 choice recipes, mysteries and disclosures, touching every branch of business (1866).

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A historical recipe

1000 choice recipes, mysteries and disclosures, touching every branch of business, by Mellen, George S., [from old catalog] comp (1866).

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

Take two spoonfuls of brandy, a little sugar, and half a tumbler of hot water.
Fill it up with new milk, and grate in a little nutmeg.
Method for Securing "Woolens, Furs, &c., from Moths.
Carefully shake and brush woolens, furs, &c, early in the spring, so as to be certain that no eggs are in them ;
then sew them up in cotton or linen wrappers, putting a piece of camphor gum, tied up in a bit of muslin, into each bundle, or into the chests and closets where the articles are to lie.
No moth will approach while the smell of the camphor continues.
When the gum has evaporated it must be renewed.