Thursday, November 27, 2008

Hot punches are made by heating the ingredients to boiling point

1. Cider: 1 bot cider, 1/z pt orange juice, 1/z pt pineapple juice, 4 oz whiskey, 4oz sugar, 10 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, 1 lemon juice, slice of orange.
2. Hot Spiced Ale: 1 pt brown ale, 2 oz rum, 2 oz sugar, 3 cloves, pinch of ground ginger.
3. Hot Today: 1 pt rum or whiskey, 1 pt water, 6 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick
4. Hot Wine: 1 pot red wine, 8 oz sugar, 1 cinnamon stick, blade of mace, slices of peeled lemon
5. Lamb’s Wool: 1 pt brown ale, 2 oz rum, 2 oz sugar, 3 cloves, pinch ground ginger, flesh of 2-3 baked apples.
6. Milk Punch: 1 pt milk, 4 oz rum, 4 oz sugar, vanilla and cinnamon
7. Purl: This drinks is not often asked for now days. It was 1/z pt beer heated with 2 oz gin, to be drunk mid-morning as a stimulant
8. Corpse Reviver: 1 oz brandy, 1 oz fernet branca, 1 oz white crème de menthe shaken together.
9. Eye Opner: 1 oz rum, 1 egg yolk, 2 dashes of curacao, 2 dashes crème de noyau and 2 dashes pernod shaken together
10. Prairi Oyster: 1 yolk of egg, 1 tsb each of worcester sauce and tomato ketchup, 2 dashes of vinger and Tabasco, to be drunk as it is.
11. Stomach Reviver: 1 : 1/z oz brandy, 1/z oz branca and a few dashes of angostura shaken together
12. Samgaree: The name of this drink is similar to the Spanish word sangria and it is a slightly less sophisticated version of that drink. It can be made with red wine, port or sherry with lemon juice, sugar or syrup and some grated nutmeg
13. Shrub: A sweet drink made of orange juice and rum; the name comes from sherbet but a shrub is not made to be effervescent.
14. Sling: Originally a sling was made with gin but is now made with any spirit plus lemon juice, sugar and lemonade or ginger ale; Pimm’s is actually a sling when made to the stated formula
15. Smash: This is made by crushing a few mint leaves with sugar and water, adding 2 oz of any spirit, a slice of orange, a twist of lemon peel, a maraschino cherry and a sprig of mint.
16. Brandy Smash: Crush a few leaves of mint with a knob of sugar, add brandy and ice cubes.
17. Sour: A sour can be made with any spirit, lemon juice and sugar, well shaken with a few drops of while of egg; it is the topped up with soda water and decorated with a slice of lemon and cherry the use of egg white is optional.
18. Swizzle: The ingredients are 1: 1/z oz gin or rum, ¾ oz lime juice, a tsb sugar and few dashes of angostura which are placed in a glass with crushed ice and stirred thoroughly with a swizzle stick; alternatively the ingredients may be well mixed in a cocktail shaker and served with a swizzle stick in a glass
19. Toddy: Cold toddy is made by sweetening 2 oz of any spirit with sugar and serving with a twist of lemon peel; a hot toddy is made by melting a little sugar in 5 oz very hot water, adding 2 oz of the required spirit, a slice of lemon and a pinch of nutmeg.
20. Zoom: This drink is made a tsb of honey melted in a little hot water, 2 oz of any spirit and a teaspoon of crème; it is well shaken and strained.

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