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ARRACK PUNCH.

Dissolve the sugar with one wine-glass of the water[1] then pour in the whiskey, add the balance of the water, and put in a small piece of lemon rind or a thin slice of lemon. Before using the glass rinse it in hot water.


Cold Whiskey Punch.[2]

(Use large bar-glass.)

  • Take 1 table-spoonful of powder white sugar dissolved in a little water.
  • Take Juice of half a small lemon,
  • Take 1½ wine-glasses of Irish or Scotch whiskey.

Fill the glass with shaved ice, shake well, and dress the top with two thin slices of lemon, and berries in season. Serve with a straw.


Arrack Punch.

(Use medium bar-glass.)

  • Take 1 table-spoonful of powdered white sugar dissolved in a little water.
  • Take Juice of half a small lemon.
  • Take 1 pony-glass of Batavia arrack.
  • Take 1 wine-glass of Jamaica rum.
  • Take 1 piece of pineapple.

Fill the glass with shaved ice, shake well, and dress the top with berries in season. Serve with a straw.


  1. When this beverage is made for a number of persons to be used at table, it ought always to be made with boiling water, and allowed to concoct and cool for a day or two before it is put on the table. In this way, the materials get more intensely amalgamated than cold water and cold whiskey ever get.
  2. When this beverage is made for a number of persons to be used at table, it ought always to be made with boiling water, and allowed to concoct and cool for a day or two before it is put on the table. In this way, the materials get more intensely amalgamated than cold water and cold whiskey ever get.