To Make Hot Punch

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint rum
• 1/2 pint brandy
• 1/4 lb sugar
• 1 large lemon
• 1/2 teaspoonful nutmeg
• 1 pint boiling water
• PUNCH-BOWL AND LADLE.]

Instructions

1. Rub the sugar over the lemon until it has absorbed all the yellow part of the skin, then put the sugar into a punchbowl;
2. add the lemon-juice (free from pips), and mix these two ingredients well together.
3. Pour over them the boiling water, stir well together, add the rum, brandy, and nutmeg;
4. mix thoroughly, and the punch will be ready to serve.
5. It is very important in making good punch that all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated; and, to insure success, the processes of mixing must be diligently attended to.