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Milk Punch

From Mrs. Putnam's receipt book, and young housekeeper's assistant (1867).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Putnam's receipt book, and young housekeeper's assistant, by Elizabeth H Putnam (1867).

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. two spoonfuls of brandy
  2. a tumbler of hot water

Method

  1. Take two spoonfuls of brandy, a little sugar, and half a tumbler of hot water ;
  2. fill it up with milk, and grate in a Httle nutmeg.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Grater
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Credit

From Mrs. Putnam's receipt book, and young housekeeper's assistant (1867), printed page 190, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsputnamsrecei00putngoog

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.