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Punch, Tea

From The practical housewife (1862).

Source and licence

From The practical housewife (1862), printed page 231, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/0304PRAC

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Infuse two ounces of hyson tea, and an ounce of black tea, m three quarts of boiling water ;
  2. then add four pounds of loaf sugar, citric acid and spirit of citron, of each six drachms, rum one pint, and five pints of brandy ;
  3. mix well, and serve.
  4. — See Punch