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Milk Punch

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India

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

Ingredients 9 ingredients

  1. Six quarts of rum
  2. Brandy
  3. one quart of lime-juice
  4. Sugar
  5. three quarts of cold water
  6. Milk
  7. three quarts of water
  8. twelve quarts of punch
  9. Nutmegs
Contains Milk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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.

Method

  1. Six quarts of rum and one of brandy, one quart of lime-juice, two seers \ of soft sugar, three quarts of cold water, two seers of pure milk, the rinds of forty limes, and three nutmegs will make twelve quarts of punch, at.
  2. follows :— Steep for two days in a bottle of the rum the peels of the forty limes ;
  3. boil in the three quarts of water the two seers of soft sugsx, and grate ia the nutmeg ;
  4. pour all the rum and syrup into a large vessel, and add gradually the quart of lime-juice and two seers of milk, boiling hot, stirring the whole time ;
  5. let it stand for an hour or two, then strain through flannel several times until it drips clear, and bottle.
  6. Sixteen bottles of rum, three bottles of brandy, four bottles of limejuice, eight bottles of milk, twelve bottles of water, eight seers of sugar, eight nutmegs, and the rinds of eighty limes, will make thirty-six quarts of milk punch, but of a milder quality than the foregoing.
  7. The addition of a bottle of cura9ao to milk punch is a great improvement : it may be added after the milk and lime-juice.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve