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Regent' s Punch

From Modern domestic cookery (1851).

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A historical recipe

Modern domestic cookery, by Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby, 1745-1828. New system of domestic cookery and University of Leeds. Library (1851).

United Kingdom

Known as a British 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 pint of rum

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. Make the sherbet with green tea, caplllaire, and lemon-juice ;
  2. to 5 pints of this mixture add 1 pint of rum, 1 of brandy, 1 of arrack, and a bottle of curacoa, together with a small jar or shape of Guava jelly.
  3. Pour in a bottle of champagne, and send up the punch in a bowl or jug, with a pine-apple sliced into it.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mixing bowl
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Measuring jug
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Credit

From Modern domestic cookery (1851), printed page 614, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21530932

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.