Roman Punch

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Yield
12.0 persons
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (7)
  1. Mix the juice of ten lemons, the juice of two sweet oranges, the peel of an orange cut very thin, and two pounds of powdered loaf-sugar together.
  2. Beat the white of ten eggs into froth.
  3. Pass the first mixture through a sieve.
  4. Mix the sifted mixture with the froth of the eggs by degrees, always beating.
  5. Put the whole into an ice-lead and let it freeze a little.
  6. Add two bottles of champagne or rum to the mixture.
  7. Turn it round with a ladle.
Original Text
Roman Punch. The juice of ten lemons, and of two sweet oranges, the peel of an orange cut very thin, and two pounds of powdered loaf-sugar, mixed together. Then take the white of ten eggs, beaten into froth. Pass the first mixture through a sieve, and then mix it by degrees, always beating with the froth of the eggs; put the whole into an ice-lead; let it freeze a little; then add to it two bottles of champagne, or rum. Turn it round with a ladle. The above is for twelve persons.
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