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Regent's Punch

A historical recipe from Cups and Their Customs, by George Edwin Roberts, Porter, Henry, M. D. (1869).

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A historical recipe

Cups and Their Customs, by George Edwin Roberts, Porter, Henry, M. D. (1869). Project Gutenberg eBook #45255.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a pound of loaf sugar
  2. a pint of pine-apple syrup
  3. three wine

Method

  1. To a pint of strongly made green tea add the rinds and juice of two lemons, one Seville orange, and one sweet orange, with half a pound of loaf sugar and a small stick of cinnamon.
  2. After standing for half an hour, strain the mixture, add a bottle of champagne, half a bottle of sherry, three wine-glasses of brandy;
  3. rum, Curaçoa, and noyau, of each a wine-glass, and a pint of pine-apple syrup.
  4. Ice the compound well, and, immediately before drinking, add a bottle of soda-water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Cups and Their Customs, by George Edwin Roberts, Porter, Henry, M. D. (1869). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #45255 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45255). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.