1860 Oxford Night Caps

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Recipe. Extract the juice from the rind of three lemons, by rubbing loaf sugar on them. The peeling oftwo Seville oranges and two lemons, cut extremely thin. The juice of four Seville oranges and ten lemons. Six glasses of calvesfeet jelly in a liquid state. The above to be put into a jug, and stirred well together. Pour two quarts of boiling water on the mixture, cover the jug closely, and place it near the fire for a quarter of an hour. Then strain the liquid through a sieve into a punch bowl or jug, sweeten it with a bottle of capillaire, and add half a pint of white wine, a pint of French brandy, a pint of Jamaica rum,and a bottle of orange shrub; the mixture to be stirred as the spirits are pour in. If not sufficiently sweet, add loaf sugar gradually in small quantities, or a spoonful or two of capillaire. To be served up either hot or cold.'' The Oxford Punch, ' Ignorant servants and waiters sometimes pnt oxalic acid into Punch to give it a flavour; sucha practice cannot he too severely censured.