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Punch, Regent's

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 brandy

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. Take a bottle of champagne, a quarter of a pint of brandy ;
  2. the juice of a lemon, a Seville orange, and a wine-glassful of Martinique, with this mix a pint or more of a strong infusion of the* best green tea strained, and syrup or sugar to taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Sieve
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Credit

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.