COUNTRY CLUB PUNCH
Take 1½ lbs. of
cut loaf sugar and rub the lumps on the
skins of 4 lemons and 2 oranges until the sugar becomes well
saturated with the oil from the skins. Then put the sugar
thus prepared into a large porcelain-lined or agate mixing
vessel, and add:
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12 Oranges, sliced.
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1 Pineapple, sliced.
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1 box Strawberries.
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2 bottles (quarts) Apollinaris Water.
Stir thoroughly with oak paddle or large silver ladle,
and add:
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1 jigger Benedictine.
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1 jigger Red Curacoa.
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1 jigger Maraschino.
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½ jigger Jamaica Rum.
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1 quart Brandy.
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4 quarts Tokay or Sweet Catawba Wine.
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2 quarts Madeira Wine.
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4 quarts Chateau Margaux.
Mix well with oak paddle or ladle and strain into another
bowl in which has been placed a block of clear ice. Then
pour in 6 quarts Champagne. Decorate the ice with fruits,
berries, etc. Serve in punch cups or glasses, dressing each
glass with fruit and berries from the bowl. |