Charles Dickens's Punch

Name: Charles Dickens's Punch
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 170 grams cognac; 170 grams demerara sugar; 3 lemons (preferably organic); 567 grams Jamaica rum; 1 kilograms boiling water

Charles Dickens's Punch is a gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegan beverage. One serving contains 155 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 16. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 30 minutes. Head to the store and pick up jamaica rum, demerara sugar, lemons, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Using a vegetable peeler or paring knife, peel the three lemons, being careful to remove only the yellow peel and not the bitter white pith. Juice the peeled lemons and set aside.

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Lemon

Juice

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Place the peels, sugar, rum and cognac in the cast iron pot.

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Sugar

Rum

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Using a long spoon, remove some of the rum from the pot and light it with a match. While it is is flaming, carefully pour the burning liquor from the spoon into the pot, igniting all of the spirits.

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Rum

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Allow to burn for three or four minutes, then extinguish by covering the pot with a tight-fitting lid.

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Pot

To the extinguished spirit-sugar-peel mixture, add the reserved lemon juice and the boiling water. Stir well, cover, and let sit for five minutes.

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Sugar

Water

Remove the lid, stir again and taste. Adjust the sweetness with sugar or water if necessary.

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Sugar

Water

Place the pot, covered, on a burner and simmer for fifteen minutes. At this point, you can serve the punch immediately as a hot drink, but remove the lemon peels if you expect to have the punch sitting for more than two hours.

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Punch