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Punch, Cold

From The practical housewife (1862).

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A historical recipe

The practical housewife, by Robert Kemp Philp. (1862).

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. a pint of gin

Method

  1. Pour half a pint of gin on the rind of a lemon;
  2. add a table-spoonful of lemon-juice, a wine-glassful of maraschino, a pint and a half of water, and two bottles of iced water.

Plating

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From The practical housewife (1862), printed page 230, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/0304PRAC

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.