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Punch Bowl with Cup Service

A simple punch made by boiling sugar and water into syrup, then adding Apollinaris before serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Punch Bowl with Cup Service

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 1 pint of sugar with 3 cups of water to make a syrup.

  2. Before serving, add 1 bottle of Apollinaris.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves into the water to form a sweet syrup that sweetens the punch.
Apollinaris
Adds carbonation, giving the punch its lively fizz when added just before serving.

“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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