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Punch, Cold

INGREDIENTS for bowl for 12 persons.-1 bottle of rum, 2 glasses of curaçoa, 1 bottle of champagne, 1/4 lb. of pounded sugar, 1 large lemon, 1/2 pint of water, ice. AVERAGE COST, 8s.

Punch, Cold. (Another way of Making.) - INGREDIENTS for bowl for 12 persons. -1 bottle of Scotch whiskey, 1 bottle of hock or other light wine, 5 oz. of loaf sugar, 2 lemons, 1/2 pint of water, 1 wineglass of liqueur. AVERAGE COST, 6s.

Cut the lemon-rind thin into the bowl, and pour over that and the sugar the water boiling. When quite cold and the sugar dissolved, take out the peel, squeeze eeze the lemons and add the juice, strained; then the whiskey and liqueur, and lastly, the wine. Serve with a pail of ice, broken up.

SEASONABLE in summer.

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