Punch a la Lorenzo Delmonico

Ingredients

• half a pound of powdered sugar
• the juice of three fine, sound, large lemons
• the juice of a fine, large, red orange
• half a pint of cold water
• a gill of Swiss kirsch
• half a gill of St. Croix rum
• a quarter of a gill of Delmonico's fine champagne cognac
• half a pint of Delmonico's champagne

Method

1. 1

   Put in a china bowl half a pound of powdered sugar, squeeze in the juice of three fine, sound, large lemons and the juice of a fine, large, red orange, then mix together for three minutes.

2. 2

   Add half a pint of cold water, a gill of Swiss kirsch, and stir for four minutes more, then strain through a fine sieve into the ice-cream freezer, remove the sieve, and pour into the freezer half a gill of St.

3. 3

   Croix rum, a quarter of a gill of Delmonico's fine champagne cognac, and half a pint of Delmonico's champagne.

4. 4

   Cover immediately with the lid, and place the freezer in a narrow ice-cream tub, filling the latter all around with broken ice mixed with rock-salt; then turn as sharply as possible for three minutes; wipe the cover neatly, uncover, and detach the punch from the sides of the freezer, as also from the bottom; cover again, turn the handle for three minutes more, uncover, detach the punch as before, cover, and repeat this three times.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The table (1889) by Alexander Filippini, page 317. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Punch a la Lorenzo Delmonico. — Put in a china bowl half a pound of powdered sugar, squeeze in the juice of three fine, sound, large lemons and the juice of a fine, large, red orange, then with a very clean wooden spoon mix together for three minutes. Add half a pint of cold water, a gill of Swiss kirsch, and stir for four minutes more, then strain through a fine sieve into the ice-cream freezer, remove the sieve, and pour into the freezer half a gill of St. Croix rum, a quarter of a gill of Delmonico's fine champagne cognac, and half a pint of Delmonico's cham- pag

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