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Shrub Or Essence Of Punch

From The cook's oracle (1837).

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A historical recipe

The cook's oracle, by William Kitchiner and University of Leeds. Library (1837).

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. a quart of Sherry

Method

  1. 653.
  2. Brandy or Rum, flavoured with (651), will give you very good extempore “ Essence of Punch.” Obs — The addition of a quart of Sherry or Madeira makes “ Punch Royal ;” if instead of Wine, the above quantity of Water be add, it will make “ Punch for Chambermaids ,” according to Salmon's Cookery, 8vo.
  3. London, 1710;
  4. see page 405 ;
  5. and 268 in Nott’s Cook's Dictionary , 8vo.
  6. 1724.

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Credit

From The cook's oracle (1837), printed page 384, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21527969

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.