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Milk Punch

A milk-based punch mixed with sherry, brandy, or rum, sweetened, shaken, and topped with grated nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Mary Ronald · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 1 ingredients
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Milk Punch

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add to a glass of milk a teaspoonful or more of sherry, brandy, or rum. Sweeten to taste. Shake well.

  2. Dust over the top a little grated nutmeg.

By Mary Ronald. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Nutmeg
Adds a warm, aromatic finish to the surface of the drink.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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