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Regent's Punch

From Modern domestic cookery (1860).

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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 (1860).

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 g-reen tea, capildaire, 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 cura^oa, •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.
  4. An excellent liqueur.
  5. — Stick 6 cloves into a fine ripe China Ciiap.
  6. XXX.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

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

From Modern domestic cookery (1860), printed page 585, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21531602

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.