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Mary Carnegie and Susan Gillespie cookbook, 1804-1905
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66. Milk Punch - Mrs. Gordon [illegible] St - Pare 2 Oranges and 6 Lemons as thin as you can - grate them rub after with Sugar to get their flavor - Steep the pieces in a Bottle of Rum or Brandy twenty four hours. Squeeze the Fruit on two pounds of Sugar adding the Juice of 6 or 8 more Oranges Add to it 2 Quarts of water and 1 of milk boiling hot. Stir the rum into the above and run it through a Jelly Bag till it is perfectly clear - Should you not wish it [so?] Sweet- keep out some of the Sugar - The Rum must be the best Jamaican - Black Currant Syrup - Mrs. Carre Cavers Take the black Currants when ripe - pick them and Crush them in a mortar - put them in an earthen dish in a cellar or cool place for a week - then take the [illegible] that grows on the Top quite off - press them through a linen cloth then put the Juice through a Jellybag - to every pound of Juice take two pounds of Sugar (Loaf Sugar) mix the juice and sugar well together and set them in a tinned pan over a pretty quick fire - Stir it till the sugar is quite melted and the Syrup just coming a boil - then let it stand off the fire till the Scum comes to the top [which?] it will do like the
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66. Milk Punch - Mrs. Gordon [illegible] St - Pare 2 Oranges and 6 Lemons as thin as you can - grate them rub after with Sugar to get their flavor - Steep the pieces in a Bottle of Rum or Brandy twenty four hours. Squeeze the Fruit on two pounds of Sugar adding the Juice of 6 or 8 more Oranges Add to it 2 Quarts of water and 1 of milk boiling hot. Stir the rum into the above and run it through a Jelly Bag till it is perfectly clear - Should you not wish it [so?] Sweet- keep out some of the Sugar - The Rum must be the best Jamaican - Black Currant Syrup - Mrs. Carre Cavers Take the black Currants when ripe - pick them and Crush them in a mortar - put them in an earthen dish in a cellar or cool place for a week - then take the [illegible] that grows on the Top quite off - press them through a linen cloth then put the Juice through a Jellybag - to every pound of Juice take two pounds of Sugar (Loaf Sugar) mix the juice and sugar well together and set them in a tinned pan over a pretty quick fire - Stir it till the sugar is quite melted and the Syrup just coming a boil - then let it stand off the fire till the Scum comes to the top [which?] it will do like the
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