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!The Von Vivant's Companion
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WEST INDIAN PUNCH
This punch is made the same as Brandy Punch, but
to each glass add a clove or two of preserved ginger and
a little of the syrup.
WHISKEY PUNCH
1 wineglass of whiskey (Irish or Scotch)
2 wineglasses of boiling water
Sugar to taste
Dissolve sugar well with one wineglass of water, then
pour in the whiskey, and add the balance of the water;
sweeten to taste; put in a small piece of lemon rind, or
a slice of lemon.
IRISH WHISKEY PUNCH
This is a genuine Irish beverage.
pure whiskey
% boiling water, in which sugar has been dissolved
If lemon isused, the rind is rubbed on the sugar, and a
littleof the juice is added before the whiskey is poured in.
J^ere's to woman, whose heart and whose soul.
Are the light and lije oj each spell we pursue/
Whether sunn'd at the tropics, or chilled at the Pole,
Jf women he there, there is happiness too.
!May we have the unspeakable good fortune to win a true
heart, and the merit to keep it-,.