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Milk Punch

A historical recipe from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors, by Maria Willett Howard (1907).

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A historical recipe

Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors, by Maria Willett Howard (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #52800.

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. 2 tablespoons brandy
  2. one tumbler to another

Method

  1. ¾ cup fresh milk salt 2 tablespoons brandy or whisky nutmeg sugar Sweeten milk to taste, add salt and liquor, and pour from one tumbler to another until frothy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors, by Maria Willett Howard (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #52800 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52800). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.