The Bar-tender's Guide/Cold Whiskey Punch

by Jerry Thomas

Cold Whiskey Punch.^[1]

(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.

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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.