The Bar-tender's Guide/Gothic Punch

by Jerry Thomas

Gothic Punch.

(Use punch bowl.)

(From a recipe in the possession of Hon. Bayard Taylor.)

• Take 4 bottles of still Catawba wine.
• Take 1 bottle of claret.
• Take 1 bottle of Champagne.
• Take 3 oranges.
• Take 10 table-spoonfuls of sugar.

Dissolve the sugar in the Catawba and claret wines; add the juice of the oranges. When mixed, put it in ice for an hour or more, and then add the Champagne.