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Mint Punch

From Our sisters' recipes (1909).

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A historical recipe

Our sisters' recipes, by Nettie M Kaufman (1909).

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 1 ingredient

  1. 1 cup sugar

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. 1 cup sugar;
  2. Juice of 6 lemons.
  3. 3 peeled lemons, sliced thin;
  4. Add, when ready to serve, a dozen sprays of green mint, 1 qt.
  5. of pounded ice and pour, from a height, 2 or 3 bottles of ginger ale.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From Our sisters' recipes (1909), printed page 197, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924089523355

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.