Short Script Instructions for One Portion

  • 1 pony bar-tender's lime juice
  • 2 dessertspoons sugar
  • 1 jigger Verdelho Madeira wine
  • 1 shot water

Shake with ice. Finely-strain into an iced Punch tumbler. Garnish with a quarter-wheel of lemon and grated nutmeg.


Full Recipe and Instructions for One Portion

Have the folowwing items:

Service-ware

Tools

Ingredients

  • bar-tender's lime (Citrus aurantiifolia)
    (also called the Key lime)
    —cut into full-wheel slices with rim slits
  • juice of bar-tender's lime (Citrus aurantiifolia)
    (also called the Key lime)
    —chilled
  • fine white sugar
    #1: ultrafine sugar (also called baker's sugar)
    #2: superfine sugar (also called caster sugar)
  • Verdelho Madeira wine
    #1: Blandy's™ 5-year Verdelho Madeira wine
  • spring water, or purified water
  • service ice cubes
    (1 fl-oz. displacement each – 1¼ inches per side)
    #1: Run Helix™ 1 fl-oz.*
  • method ice (also called 'cracked ice')
    (half the size of service ice cubes)
    #1: Sakolla™ ½ fl-oz.*
  • nutmeg (whole)

Instructions

  1. Set the shaker in the work area. Into it goes:
    • | bartender’s-lime juice — 1 ponyfull [1 fl-oz. / ~30 ml.]
    • | sugar — 2 dessertspoonsfull [4 tsp. / 1 Australian tbsp. / ~20 ml.)
    • | Verdelho Madeira wine — 1 jiggerfull [2 fl-oz. / ~60 ml.]
    • | water — 1 shotfull [1½ fl-oz. / ~45 ml.]
  2. Take the punch tumbler to the ice. Into it goes:
    • | service ice — 4 cubes
  3. Set the iced Punch tumbler in the work area.
  4. Take the shaker to the ice. Into it is added:
    • | method ice — 1¾-fill
  5. Set the shaker back in the work area.
  6. Fit the cheater into the shaker, lift it, and butt the cheater with the palm of the hand to seal it.
  7. Shake the ingredients very hard for nine seconds to mix, chill-dilute and aerate.
  8. Set the shaker down in the work area.
  9. Snap the cheater to the side to unseal it, and remove the cheater.
  10. Fit the Hawthorne strainer into the shaker's top.
  11. Hold the mesh strainer in the other hand over the punch tumbler.
  12. Strain the drink through both strainers into the tumbler.
  13. Insert the drinking straw and garnish the drink with:
    • | bartender’s-lime — 1 full-wheel slice placed on the rim in front of the drinking straw (from the drinker’s point of view)
    • | nutmeg — a liberal amount freshly-grated onto the surface of the drink.
  14. Serve the drink on the napkin with the drinking straw at ‘one-thirty o’clock’ (from the drinker’s point of view).

Full Recipe and Instructions for Twelve Portions

Have the folowwing items:

Service-ware

Tools

Ingredients

  • common orange (Citrus sinensis)
    Valencia or Navel
    —cut into full-wheel slices
  • juice of bar-tender's lime (Citrus aurantiifolia)
    (also called the Key lime)
  • granulated white sugar
  • Verdelho Madeira wine
    #1: Blandy's™ 5-year Verdelho Madeira wine
  • spring water, or purified water
  • Punch ice blocks
    #1: ~4 lb. block molds*
  • nutmeg kernel

Instructions

  1. Set the batter bowl in the work area. Into it goes:
    • | lime juice — 1½ cupsfull [1 tankardfull / ~360 ml.]
    • | sugar — 1 cupfull [~240 ml.]
    • | Verdelho Madeira wine — 1 metric bottlefull [~25 fl-oz. / 750 ml.]
    • | water — 2¼ cupsfull [3 teacupsfull / 18 fl-oz. / ~150 ml.]
  2. Use the whisk to mix thoroughly until the sugar is dissolved.
  3. Cover the batter bowl with its lid and refrigerate the Punch for at least two hours.
  4. Just before taking the punch out of the refrigerator, cut the orange into thin, full wheel slices and reserve them.
  5. Set the Punch bowl, or dispenser, in the work area.
  6. Take the Punch in the batter bowl out of the refrigerator. Remove the cover.
  7. Hold the large fine-mesh strainer over the empty Punch bowle.
  8. Strain the Punch from the batter bowl into the Punch bowl.
  9. Add:
    • | Punch ice — as many of the largest size blocks as will fit (while yet allowing ladling)
  10. Garnish the punch with:
    • | orange — full-wheel slices (reserved in step #4)
    • | nutmeg — 1 whole kernel grated onto the surface of the Punch.
  11. If a dispenser is being used, cap it.
  12. Serve by setting Punch cups, beverage napkins, and additional grated nutmeg nearby.

Tipple History

:

  • Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle. London; 1736 [shown above, center top]

:

  • Notes on the West Indies, Volume II. London; George Pinckard; 1806 [shown above, center bottom]
  • Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country. London; 1806
  • Home Companion – An Illustrated Weekly Magazine. London; 1853


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