A MIGHTY BOWL OF PUNCH.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 19 December 1912, Page 26

A MIGHTY BOWL OF PUNCH.

On October 28, in the year 1694, a most extraordinary bowl of punch was made at Admiral Russell’s house, at the time when he was commander-in-chief of the British forces- in the Mediterranean. It was made in a fountain in the garden, where four walks joined that were sheltered by orange and lemon trees. In each

walk was arranged a table that reached its entire length, and these tables were spread with cold viands. The punch was brewed from the following ingredients:—Four hogsheads of brandy, eight hogheads of water, twenty-live thousand lemons, twenty gallons of lime juice, thirteen hundredweight of fine Libson sugar, five pounds of grated nutmegs, three hundred toasted biscuits, and a pipe of dry mountain Malaga. Over the fountain was spread a large canopy to keep off the rain, and a small boat was specially built to float upon the small sea of punch. In cnis was seated a boy belonging to the fleet, who rowed round the fountain and filled the cups of drink from the bowl of punch.