The Bar-tender's Guide/Hot Scotch Whiskey Punch

by Jerry Thomas

Hot Scotch Whiskey Punch.

(Use medium bar-glass.)

• Take 1 wine-glass of Glenlivet or Islay whiskey.
• Take 2 wine-glasses of boiling water.
• Take Sugar to taste. (About two lumps of loaf sugar.)

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.

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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.