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Punch à la Vatican

A historical recipe from Modern American Drinks, by George J. Kappeler (1895).

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A historical recipe

Modern American Drinks: How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks, by George J. Kappeler (1895). Project Gutenberg eBook #61065.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. one-half pint of old Jamaica rum
  2. one pint of champagne
  3. two quarts of the sherbet

Method

  1. Prepare a pineapple sherbet made tart with lemon-juice.
  2. Peel the lemons before squeezing so as not to get any of the oil of the rind into the juice.
  3. Mix the strained juice with the sherbet and freeze.
  4. Just before the punch is to be served add and mix into it one-half pint of old Jamaica rum and one pint of champagne for every two quarts of the sherbet.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Vegetable peeler
  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Modern American Drinks, by George J. Kappeler (1895). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #61065 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61065). 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.