St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
EARLY ENGLISH MILK PUNCH
Produced by an Imported Pub.
lican After a Receipt $50 Years

Produced by an Imported Pub
lican After Receipt $50 Years
Old.
Tommy Magruder succeeded some
weeks ago in getting customer for the
little roadside tavern up in Passaic
coounty. His sister-in-law had found it
burden upon her since her husbands
death, and had had infinite trouble with
the hired bartenderS, who all turned
out to be either dissipated or dishonest.
When ncwly-arrived EngliShmaD told
Tommy recently that he had e100 and
wanted to open a public house with it,
Tommy saw a good chance for the
widow, and hitching up the horse he
took the Englishman up to the place.
He timed the trip accurately SO
as to arrive just after the
employees in the bricfyardS had
received their pay, and, as a conse-
Quence, the little tap room was crowded
with customers. 1t was lucky stroke.
There was 10 need of employing stool
pigeons to make business lively, as in
some cases when proprietors are tired Of
their saloons. Here were real custom
ers, allurough and uncouth, but mild
hammered and obSe quious in TOmmy's
Since Tommy administered salutary
lesson to the boss of the gang when he
tried to impose upon him and get q
round of drinks for nothing. Money
flew after Tommy and his English
friend arrived, and the heavy business
made such good impression that when
he was introduced to the widow there
wBs no trouble about making bargain.
The transfer was made day or two
later, and the widow is now installed i'll
Tommy's house in Newark.
Tommy says the Engltshman was not
Il loser by the purchase. and that he
seemed thoroughly coEtented in the new
business.
Hes a good 'un,' said Tommy on
Thursday. HE couldn't stand any kid
when they tried to pull his leg for
drinks he opened OH 'em. He licked
two or three of them, and now that they
have come to know his ways they all
like him, and he's doing better busi-
ness than me brother ever dared do.
But I've got to tell you about the milk
punch got up there Tuesday. 1t
knocks the Magruder cocktail silly, and
it's all straight goods, too. Sis wanted
me to go up and get a final payment out
of the Englishman, and went. He was
awful glad to see ME, and asked me to
take drink. OF course l didn't want
to refuse. so told him I'd take milk
punch. Did get it? Betcher life did.
and it was dandy.
"'l'll make you the best milk punch
you heyer 'ad,' he says, and then he
pours about quart of milk into big
stone pitcher and fires about pint OF
brandy into it. | was onto him, and it
struck me comic, but he paralyzed me
when he put in about tiStful of sugar
and squeezed four lemons into the
pitcher. | didn't say word, but just
let him go on, and he got one of them
tunnels with Strainer in it and put the
lemon peeiS into il. Then he poured
the whole dose through the funnel in to
big bottle and shook it up. What do
you want to make so much fOr?" says i.
"'Oh, it'll keep as long as you like,'
says he, and then he poured out glass
for me. DID drink it? Well, should
say did, and it wasn't bad, either.
didn't like the idea at first. | was
milk, but then didn't want to offend
him OH account of the money | was
looking for, and l tasted it. Now,
amt saying tnat it is any better than q
milk punch made with brandy and Med
ford rum. but Pm telling you there amt
any flies on an English milk punch.
That's the way they made milk punches
in the old country a hundred years ago.
He told me so, and since then | asked
old Jimmy Hartford about it, and he
went and got book about $50 years old
that had the prescription in it. 1t was
queer-looking, and in all the places
where there ought to be an there was
an f. just made a copy Of it, for fear
some duck would think lied if ! told
the story.''
This is the recipe Tommy produced,
and he denied any intention of intro
dueing the beverage as the Magruder
milk punch:
Take two quarts of old milk. quart
of good brandy, the juice of fix lemons
or oranges, whether you pleafe, and
and about fix ounces of loaf fugar; mix
them all together and drop them thrO' a
jelly bag; take off the peel and put it
into your bag. When it is run off bottle
it. 1t will keep as long as you pleafe.