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Verder, or Milk Punch, quickly made

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a quart of lemonade
  2. Wine
  3. Milk
  4. Verjuice
  5. a glassful of brandy
  6. Grapes

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Grape High in riboflavin · High in manganese

    High in riboflavin · 1.5 mg per 100 g, 107% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Riboflavin contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Riboflavin contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Riboflavin contributes to the maintenance of normal mucous membranes.
    6 more authorised claims
    • Riboflavin contributes to the maintenance of normal red blood cells.
    • Riboflavin contributes to the maintenance of normal skin.
    • Riboflavin contributes to the maintenance of normal vision.
    • Riboflavin contributes to the normal metabolism of iron.
    • Riboflavin contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Riboflavin contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.

    Riboflavin (also called vitamin B2) is important for the growth, development, and function of the cells in your body. It also helps turn the food you eat into the energy you need. NIH fact sheet

    High in manganese · 2.0 mg per 100 g, 99% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Manganese contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Manganese contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    • Manganese contributes to the normal formation of connective tissue.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Manganese contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Manganese is a mineral that your body needs to stay healthy. Your body uses manganese to make energy and protect your cells from damage. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Grapes, muscadine, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Method

  1. Sweeten a small tea-cuj>ful of hot milk, and add it, with a glassful of brandy, to a quart of lemonade.
  2. Strain through a jellybag, and it wiP be fit for use.
  3. Verjuice.
  4. — Verjuice, or the juice of green fruits, is an acid liquor expressed from crabs, sour grapes, and unripe gooseberries, and used in sauces or ragouts as a substitute for lemonjuice;
  5. indeed, for some dishes experienced cooks prefer verjuice to lemon-acid.
  6. To prepare it from unripe grapes, gather the grapes while they are transparent, and extract the juice from them by a wine or cider press, or by pressing them in a cloth.
  7. Filter it re-

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
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Credit

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, with numerous engravings and full-page coloured plates (1880), printed page 70, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21537628

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.