Gin Punch

Name: Gin Punch
Ingredients: boiling water, to top up to taste; 15 cinnamon sticks; generous pinch each of ground cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg; 1 tsp brown sugar; 1 tsp honey; 225 g/8 oz/⅔ cup honey; 20 whole cloves; 1 bottle of ginger wine or brandy; 1 bottle of gin; 130 g/4½ oz/⅔ cup brown sugar; 2 slices of lemon; 30 ml/1 fl oz ginger wine or brandy; hot water, to top up the mug; 30 ml/1 fl oz gin; 7–8 lemons, sliced; 1 tsp ground nutmeg

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Cook The Victorian Way with Mrs Crocombe

By Annie Gray and Andrew Hann

Published 2020

About

Ingredients

Per Mug

30 ml/1 fl oz gin
30 ml/1

Gluten-free
Drinks
Vegetarian

Method

Punch was a ubiquitous party drink for the Victorians and recipe books of the time list a huge variety, from the cheap to the much more expensive. It was a drink designed for sharing, whether after dinner – when it could be mixed at the table in a male-only ritual generally ending in disarray – or at celebrations. This one is at the cheaper end of the scale, using gin, which was still only just