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Milk Punch

From The Home messenger book of tested receipts (1873).

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A historical recipe

The Home messenger book of tested receipts, by Mary B. [from old catalog] Duffield and Isabella G. D. [from old catalog] Stewart (1873).

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. six teaspoonfuls of sugar

Method

  1. Put one tablespoonful of Jamaica spirits (or rum), into a tumbler with six teaspoonfuls of sugar ;
  2. fill up with milk, and grate nutmeg over the top.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater
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Credit

From The Home messenger book of tested receipts (1873), printed page 114, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/homemessengerboo02duff

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.