Fish House Punch
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a collins glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of lemon slice and grated nutmeg.
Method
- 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish
- 5 Garnish with lemon slice and dust with grated nutmeg.
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14.8% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 221 calories
History
Tea tannins and lemon juice dry and sour this cognac and rum punch, with peach liqueur adding balance and fruit.
Probably the most famous of all punch recipes this is believed to have originated at a Philadelphia fishing and social club called the State in Schuylkill Fishing Corporation which was established in 1732 with a clubhouse built on the banks of Pennsylvania's Schuylkill River (pronounced Skoo-kul). When the drink was first made is unknown, but drinks historian David Wondrich says the first written reference to the Fish House Punch appeared in 1794. Others say it was first made in 1848 by Shippen Willing of Philadelphia to celebrate women being allowed into the Fish House for the first time for a Christmas Party. Whatever the origin, as with all traditional punch recipes this should properly be made with oleo saccharum (rather than lemon juice and sugar) in larger quantities and served from a punch bowl. This recipe is our cheat's single-serve. The inclusion of peach liqueur is a modern substitute for the traditional barrel-aged peach brandy. However, some believe the Schuylkill original omitted peach entirely. The following poem may be recited when serving a Fish House Punch. There's a little place just out of town, Where, if you go to lunch, They'll make you forget your mother-in-law With a drink called Fish-House Punch. Also see: Punch history