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Milk Punch

From Meals for the million (1882).

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A historical recipe

Meals for the million, by Juliet Corson (1882).

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 2 ingredients

  1. a glass of brandy
  2. a glass of hot milk

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. For hot punch mix together quarter of a glass of brandy, rum, or whiskey, with three quarters of a glass of hot milk ;
  2. add sugar and nutmeg to make the punch palatable.
  3. For cold punch use the same proportion of liquor, but fill the glass with shaved or finely cracked ice, with spice and sugar to taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
  • Chef's knife
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Credit

From Meals for the million (1882), printed page 78, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mealsformillionp00cors

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.