Cakes & Ale: A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veraciousSpencer, Edward
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Cakes & Ale: A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious
Spencer, Edward
Cooking, English; Dinners and dining; Entertaining; Gastronomy
4. Over the yellow rind of four lemons and one Seville
orange, pour one pint of rum. Let it stand, covered over, for
twelve hours. Strain and mix in two pints more of rum, one pint
of brandy, one pint of sherry, half-a-pint of lemon juice, the
expressed juice of a peeled pine-apple, one pint of green tea,
one pound of sugar dissolved in one quart of boiling water, the
whites of two eggs beaten up, one quart of boiling milk. Mix
well, let it cool, and then strain through a jelly-bag, and
bottle off.
This punch is calculated to make the epicure forget that he has just
been partaking of conger-eel broth instead of clear turtle.
_Cambridge Milk Punch._
This a fairly good boys' beverage, there being absolutely
"no offence in't." Put the rind of half a lemon (small) into
one pint of new milk, with twelve lumps of sugar. Boil very
slowly for fifteen minutes, then remove from the fire, take out
the lemon rind, and mix in the yolk of one egg, which has been
previously blended with one tablespoonful of cold milk, two
tablespoonfuls of brandy, and four of rum. Whisk all together,
and when the mixture is frothed, it is ready to serve.
_Oxford Punch._
There is no milk in this mixture, which sounds like "for'ard on!" for
the undergraduate who for the first time samples it.
Rub off the yellow rind of three lemons with half-a-pound
of loaf sugar. Put the result into a large jug, with the yellow
rind of one Seville orange, the juice of three Seville oranges
and eight lemons, and one pint of liquefied calf's-foot jelly.
Mix thoroughly, then pour over two quarts of boiling water,
and set the jug on the hob for thirty minutes. Strain the
mixture into a punch-bowl, and when cool add one small bottle
of capillaire (an infusion of maidenhair fern, flavoured with
sugar and orange-flower water); one pint of brandy, one pint
of rum, half-a-pint of dry sherry, and one quart of orange
shrub--a mixture of orange-peel, juice, sugar, and rum.
After drinking this, the young student will be in a fit state to
sally forth, with his fellows, and "draw" a Dean, or drown an amateur
journalist.
I have a very old recipe, in MS., for "Bischoff," which I take to
be the original of the better known beverage called "Bishop," for
the manufacture of which I have also directions. For the sake of
comparison I give the two.
_Bischoff._
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