Milk Punch

Cold milk punch, as with any milk punch (see Eggnog below), is meant to be restorative. The cold version is more for someone “with a head on him,” as we might say of someone who’d indulged a bit much at the pub the night before. The sufferer might say, “Give us a milk punch there. I’ve quite the head on me.” And here’s what the bartender would mix, with a tiny shot of dark rum, or “black rum,” as we call it in Ireland. From experience, we’re big believers in the efficacy of the hair of the