Hot Punch

Ingredients

• Dissolve 1 pound sugar
• in 1 1/2 quart of cold water
• add the juice of 1 lemon
• and 4 oranges
• and a little thin peel of both
• add 1/2 pint hot strong tea
• and 1/2 pint good rum

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve sugar in cold water and boil for 5 minutes.

2. 2

   Add lemon juice, orange juice, and thin peel, boil again, remove peel, then add hot tea and rum.

3. 3

   Strain into a punch bowl and serve hot or cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 385. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hot Punch. — Dissolve 1 pound sugar in lYt quart of cold water and boil 5 minutes ; add the juice of 1 lemon and 4 oranges and a little thin peel of both, let boil up ; remove from fire, take out the peel, add Ya pi^t hot strong tea and Ys pint good rum

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