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Milk Punch To Keep

From Jennie June's American cookery book (1866).

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A historical recipe

Jennie June's American cookery book, by J. C. (Jane Cunningham) Croly (1866).

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 pounds of sugar
  2. four quarts of water

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. Pare six oranges and six lemons, as thin as possible, and grate them afterwards to extract the flavor.
  2. Soak the peel for twentyfour hours in a bottle of rum or brandy, closely stopped.
  3. Squeeze the fruit on two pounds of sugar, and add to it four quarts of water and one of new milk,- boiling hot.
  4. Stir in the rum, and run it through a jelly bag until quite clear, then bottle and cork it closely immediately.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Jennie June's American cookery book (1866), printed page 275, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/jenniejunesameri00crol_1

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.