Strawberry Punch

Ingredients

• Strawberries, 1 quart
• Raspberries, 1/2 pint
• Sugar, 2 cups
• Port-wine, 1 tumbler
• Water, 1 1/2 cups

Method

1. 1

   Pick the stems off of the berries and crush, and pass the juice through a fine sieve or cloth.

2. 2

   Make a syrup with the sugar and water, and mix it with the juice.

3. 3

   Add the port-wine, and place the whole on ice for several hours before serving.

4. 4

   Serve in small glasses.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Around-the-world cook book (1913) by Mary Louise Barroll, page 96. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

d raspberries, 1 pint, Siphon seltzer. Soak the leaves in the juice of the oranges and lemons for half an hour, then add the sherry, a pint of raspberries, and a quart of thick, sugar-syrup made from boiling a quart of water and 5 cups of sugar for 10 minutes. Mix thoroughly, place in the ice-chest, and just before serving add a siphon of seltzer. Pour into a high glass tankard, and garnish with a bouquet of fresh mint. ORANGE CORDIAL Apple brandy, 2 quarts, Oranges (skins only), 15, Loaf sugar, 2 pounds. Put the orange peel in the brandy, and let it stand for 3 weeks. Then take out the skins, and add 2 pounds of loaf sugar to the brandy, and let it stand for 6 weeks longer, then strain and bottle. WINES ELDER-BLOW WINE Blossoms (pressed down), 1 quart, Cold water, 1 gallon, Sugar, 4 pounds. Lemons, sliced, 3, Yeast, 1 cake. Pick from the stems enough blossoms to fill a quart measure when pressed down. Add a gallon of cold water, and steep for 24 hours. Strain, and add the sugar, sliced lemons and yeast-cake. 286 AROUND-THE-WORLD COOK BOOK BEVERAGES Set away for 2 weeks, then strain carefully again, pour it into a jug, and after several months bottle. CUERANT WINE Currants, 4 pounds, Sugar, 3 pounds, Water, 1 gallon. Wash the currants, stems and all, in a large vessel; add the water and place in a cool cellar, stirring occasionally during 3 days. Press the currants through cloth, and strain the liquor, then add to it the sugar, and stir well. Pour this into a cask, and when it ceases to ferment, bottle. FRUIT PUNCHES. 'CALIFORNIA FRTHT-PUNCH Take equal quantities of unfermented white grape-juice, and apollinaris water. Serve in a punch-bowl with a large lump of ice on which is laid grape leaves and a bunch of malaga grapes ; — or a small quantity may be served in a glass pitcher. STRAWBERRY PUNCH Strawberries, 1 quart, Raspberries, % pint, Sugar, 2 cups. Port-wine, 1 tumbler

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