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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
MANDARIN PUNCH, a RECEIPT GARNERED away BACK in 1931,
from LADY BREDON, for a WHOLE GENERATION SocIAL DICTATOR of
PEKING'S LEGATION QUARTER SET
There are rare occasions when a Peking host or hostess has to pro–
duce a temperance punch, and this species makes a welcome relief
for the usual. Actually this punch is more or less of an essence with
fruit juices, and is usually served exactly like raspberry vinegar–
poured to taste over cracked fine ice which almost fills the glass, with
water added to suit final ideas of strength and flavour.
Melt out
2
cups of sugar with
2
doz whole cloves,
2
sticks of cinna–
mon bark, add
Yi
cup of water and cook for
IO
minutes; draw from
the fire and let cool. At that point stir in
2
cups of orange juice, and
about
Yi
cup of lemon or lime juice. Strain through cheesecloth, let
stand for
Yi
hr and mix in the following: 3 drops of spearmint oil,
buyable at any pharmacy,
l
tbsp finely chopped candied ginger root,
r bunch of green mint tips snipped fine with scissors. Mix to taste with
cracked ice in tumblers or goblets; stirring with each spoonful so as
not to miss the solids in this syrup. Fill up with plain water or soda.
A DELICIOUS
&
PRETTY BEVERAGE MADE from FREsH
GRENADINES, or PoMEGRANATES, which WILL BE GooD NEws to
DWELLERS in
all
SUBTROPICAL or
T~oPICAL
CLIMATES; ONE from CITY
of JAIPUR, in INDIA
The lovely roseate tint of pomegranate juice is what makes grena–
dine syrup so attractive in mixed drinks, and here is a secret from
Rajputana, and the city ruled by the Maharajah of Jaipur, mentioned
elsewhere in this volume. For centuries the pomegranate's coral–
coloured blossom and low-hanging, blushing fruit have been immor–
talized by poet and tale teller throughout the fantastic courts of Persia,
Arabia, Egypt, and fu ther East. Here from our window we can see
some
Yz
doz bushes bending low under their burden of fruits-yet
no one we have ever knowri in America-except ourself-ever does
anything about them, even though they seem to grow
in
every oth r
southern back yard! ... Simply break open the fruit, over a big bowl
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