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Punch, for Hot Weather

Put a dozen small sprigs of early mint into a large tumbler, and sprinkle over them a table-spoonful of white powdered sugar. Fill up a third of the glass with peach brandy and French brandy in equal proportions, and add as much pounded ice as the tumbler with contain. Rub the rim of the tumbler with a slice of fresh pine-apple, and drink the contents as the ice melts. If the brandy is not at hand, a glassful of sherry and a glassful of gin may be substituted for it, and an inch or two of orange-rind may be added as flavouring.