Horse’s Collar, John A. Weaver
Little is known about John Avery Weaver, the man behind the bar. at Smith’s Hotel.
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Milk Punch, Cookery Notebook of George Dobbin Brown
The twenty-five recipes for Milk Punch in my database all contain similar ingredients: milk, rum or brandy, nutmeg, sugar. For years now I’ve been intending to make one of these recipes for eggnog’s cousin (or rival, depending on who you ask). It was only this year that I noticed that these punch recipes, with their…
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Egg Lemonade
“A lady whose husband had a severe cold recomended flaxseed lemonade. ‘Huh!’ he said, irascibly, ‘a man can’t have a cold without everybody suggesting some fool remedy. I’ll send for a doctor.’So the doctor came, charged the sick man $2 for his visit and advised flaxseed lemonade.” – New York Sun, 1887 The earliest recorded…
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Apple Toddy
During the holiday season, apple toddy was most often mentioned alongside eggnog.
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Tea Punch, O. H. W. Hunter
According to Wikipedia, the word for punch comes from the sanskrit word for “five.” The drink was once made up of five components: water, citrus, alcohol, sugar, and “spice”. According to punch historian David Wondrich, the spice in question could be anything from “nutmeg or tea to ambergris.” (Hey that rhymes!) The flavors of this…
