Glasgow Punch1

From ‘Peter’s Letters’2

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By F. Marian McNeill

Published 2015

  • About

A hundred years ago and more, the signal toast at the Glasgow clubs was ‘The trade of Glasgow and the outward bound’.

Ingredients

  • rum
  • cold water
  • sugar
  • lemons
  • limes

Method

The sugar3 being melted with a little cold water, the artist squeezed about a dozen lemons through a wooden strainer, and then poured in water enough almost to fill the bowl. In this state the liquor goes by the name of sherbet, and a few of the connoisseurs in his immediate neighbourhood were requested to give their opinion of it—for in the mix