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Milk Punch

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United States

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

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a tablespoonful of sugar syrup
  2. Nutmeg
  3. a tablespoonful of brandy
  4. a half pint of cold milk
  5. Whisky
  6. a tablespoonful of whipped cream

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. Shake a half pint of cold milk until it has a slight froth on the surface ;
  2. then add a tablespoonful of sugar syrup and a tablespoonful of brandy or whisky, dust with a little nutmeg and serve.
  3. If admissible, put on top a tablespoonful of whipped cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
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Credit

From Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick (1914), printed page 248, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsrorersdietfor00roreiala

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.