1876 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon-Vivant's Companion 2$50 by Jerry Thomas

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OXFuKD PUNCH.

dy, one of wliite wine, and one of milk, and one pound and a quarter of sugar. Let it be mixed, and then cover ed for twenty-four hours, strain through a jelly-bag tUl olear, then bottle it. 61. Queen Punch,. Put two ounces of cream of tartar, and the juice and parings of two lemons, into a stone jar; pour on them seven quarts of boiling water,stir and cover close. When cold, sweeten with loaf-sugar, and straining it, bottle and cork it tight. This is a very pleasant liquor, and very wholesome; butfrom the latter consideration was at one time drank in such quantities as to become injurious. Add, in bottling, half a pint of rum to the whole quantity. (From a recipe Id tin" possession of Bayard Taylor,Esq.) Four K">ttles still Catawba; one bottle claret, three oranges, or one pineapple, ten table-spoonfuls of sugar. Let this mixture stand in a very cold place, or in ice, for one hour or more,then add one bottle of champagne. 63. Oxford Punch. We have been favored by an English gentleman with the following recipe for the concoction of punch as drunk by the students of the University of Oxford: Rub the rinds of three fresh lemons with loaf-sugar till you have extracted a portion of the juice; cut the peel finely oif two lemons more, and two sweet oranges. Use the juice of six lemons, and four sweet oranges. Add six glasses jf calfs-foot jelly; let all be put into a large jug, 62. Gothic Punch. (For a party often f