1847 Oxford night caps (4th edition)

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quartern of rum, and the same quantity of brandy, with four glasses of green gooseberry

or white currant wine. This Punch is usually iced.

INN KEEPERS' PUNCH. Dissolve about seven ounces of lump sugar in one pint of boiling water, add forty grains of citric acid, seven or eight drops of essence of lemon, and (when well mixed) half a pint of rum, a quarter of a pint of brandy, and a LEMONADE. To convert Egg Punch into delicious Le- monade, leave out the wine, spirits, and oranges, and add the juice of four more lemons and a proportionate quantity of sugar. ORANGEADE. The mixture may also be made into Orange- ade by omitting the wine, spirits, and lemons, and squeezing into it the juice of twelve oranges glass of sherry.