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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine. Volume 9 No.1 March 2012
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Recipes from the past.....

Remembering our recent experience of the Punch, served at the
December Garden Party prompts one to draw attention to the recipe
recommended by our late and sadly missed colleague,
The First Country Member, Cedric Dickens.

Here is the recipe, with his comments and quotation :

“ There is nothing like hot punch.”
A drink usually of wine or spirit mixed with hot water or milk, and sugar, lemons and
Spice.
And of course, medicinally magnificent: “If ever hot punch did fail to act as a
preventative, it was merely because the patient fell into the vulgar error of not taking
enough of it.”

A GEORGE AND VULTURE Juice of 8 sweet oranges
RECIPE FOR PUNCH. 1 Bottle of Whisky
1 Pint of Sherry
1 Quartern of Brandy
1½ pints of china tea
Nutmeg to cover a 1/-
Loaf sugar to sweeten
Rind of a lemon
Cinnamon if desired
This old recipe might have been tasted by Mr.Pickwick and Sam Weller when they
were “suspended” at the George and Vulture.

It should be made hot in earthenware.