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Tea Punch— 2

From The 3-6-5 cook book, for use 365 days in the year (1899).

Source and licence

From The 3-6-5 cook book, for use 365 days in the year (1899), printed page 261, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/365cookbookforus00pech

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Two quarts of Jamaica rum, twelve lemons, three pounds of pulvarized sugar, two cups of green tea.
  2. Cut the rind of the lemons as thinly as possible, string all on long string and soak in the rum.
  3. Steep tea, pour it over the sugar and lemon juice, then add the rum.
  4. Just before serving, fill up the punch bowl with powdered ice and pour over the mixture.