1864 Bar Tender's Guide price $2 00 by Jerry Thomas

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TIlis is a delicious and safe drlok for a mixed evening party. Cool before serving.

48. -Canadian,Punch.

2 quarts oflye whiskey. 1 pint of Jamaica rum.

Gdeirions, sliced, 1 pineapple, do.

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4 quarts of water. Sweeten to taste, and ice.

49. Tip-Top Punch.

(For a party offive.)

1 bottle ofchampagne. 2 do. soda-water. 1 liqueur glass of Cura5oa. 2 table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar, 1 slice of pineapple, cut up. n Piit all the ingredients together in a small punch-bowl, mix well, and serve in champagne goblets. •50. Arrack. Most of the arrack imported into this country is dis tilled-from rice, and comes from Batavia. It is but little used in America, except to flavor punch; the taste of it is very agreeable in this mixture. Arrack improves very much with age. It is much used in some parts of India, where it is distilled from todchj, the juice of the cocoanut tree. An imitation ofarrack punch is made by adding to a bowl of punch a few grains of benzoin,commonly called flowers of Benjamin. See recipe No. 30,in '•'•The ^Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, etcf in the end of this volume.

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