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Milk Punch

From The cook's own book, and housekeeper's register. Being receipts for cooking of every kind of meat, fish, and fowl (1854).

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The cook's own book, and housekeeper's register. Being receipts for cooking of every kind of meat, fish, and fowl, by Lee, N. K. M., Mrs and Boston housekeeper (1854).

United States

Known as an American 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 1 ingredient

  1. two pounds of sugar

Method

  1. Pare six oranges, and six lemons, as thin as you possibly can, grate tliem after with sugar lo obtain the flavor.
  2. Steep the peels in a bottle of rum ar biandy, stopped close for four and twenty hours.
  3. Sciueeze the tinit on two pounds of sugar, add four ()uarts of water to it, and one (]nart of new milk, bulling hot;
  4. stir the rum into the above, and lun it thronwJi a jelly-bag until it is {jiiite clear: bottle and cork it close immcdiatelv.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The cook's own book, and housekeeper's register. Being receipts for cooking of every kind of meat, fish, and fowl (1854), printed page 285, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cooksownbookhous00leen

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.