1892 Drinks of the world

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sidered necessary by the adept to rub the sugar on the rind of the citron or lemon, to extract properly what the experienced drinker calls " the ambrosial essence." The extraction of the ambrosial essence, and the making the mixture sweet and strong, using tea instead of water, and thoroughly amalgamating all the

A CROWN BOWL OF PUNCH.'

compounds, so that the taste of neither the bitter, the sweet, the spirit, nor the element shall be perceptible -*one over the other, is the grand secret of making punch. ; And to this, as to other learning, there is no royal road. ^ It must, alas! be laboriously acquired by Many are the mysteries of its concoction. For instance, it is essential in making hot punch that practice.