{"id":3150,"date":"2016-05-26T07:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2017-01-29T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T01:18:24","slug":"fish-house-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/fish-house-punch.html","title":{"rendered":"Fish House Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You can&#8217;t say those soldiers didn&#8217;t know how to drink!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 qt rum<\/li>\n<li>1 qt brandy<\/li>\n<li>1 pt lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 c tea<\/li>\n<li>1 c sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix.<\/li>\n<li>Pour over a large block of ice AT LEAST 3 hours before drinking. \u00a0(You don&#8217;t want to see what happens if it is not somewhat diluted!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Serves: \u00a0<\/strong>Makes 1 1\/2 gal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> \u00a0Major General James A Woodruff<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:\u00a0<\/strong>According to \u00a0Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>This most venerable of American flowing bowls is held to have been first concocted in 1732 at Philadelphia&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0fishing club, the &#8220;State in Schuylkill&#8221; also known as the &#8220;Fish House&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A 1744 note by the secretary of an embassy of <a title=\"Virginia\">Virginia<\/a> Commissioners contains what may be the earliest record of the punch. Meeting local notables at the &#8220;Schuylkill River&#8221; in Philadelphia, he described being served &#8220;a Bowl of fine Lemon Punch big enough to have Swimmed half a dozen of young Geese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s first president, &#8220;George Washington&#8221;, was known to be fond of a drink or two, and sometimes more. He indulged in thirteen toasts \u2014 one for each state \u2014 during a victory celebration at New York&#8217;s Fraunces Tavern, and it is said that after he partook of Fish House punch at Philadelphia&#8217;s State in Schuylkill, he couldn&#8217;t bring himself to make an entry in his diary for the following three days.<\/p>\n<p>The in Schuylkill Fish House Punch is traditionally made in a large bowl that did double duty as aas a baptismal font\u00a0for the citizens&#8217; infant sons. &#8220;Its an ample space . . . . . would indeed admit of total immersion,&#8221; as one citizen noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Fish House was an august gentlemen&#8217;s society devoted to escaping domestic tribulation, but also to cigars, whiskey, and the occasional fishing foray upon the\u00a0&#8220;Chesapeake Bay&#8221; or upon the &#8220;Restigouche River&#8221; in Canada. Another version states that it was created in 1848 by Shippen Willing of Philadelphia, to celebrate the momentous occasion of women being allowed into the premises of the &#8220;Fish House&#8221; for the first time in order to enliven the annual Christmas party.\u00a0It was supposed to be just &#8220;something to please the ladies&#8217; palate but get them livelier than is their usual wont.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never a good idea nor a safe idea to drink and drive. But if you do, you&#8217;d better know your limits. \u00a0See\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Blood Alcohol \u00a0Percentages in Beverages\u00a0<\/span> in the Miscellaneous Information category and the Drinks category.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t say those soldiers didn&#8217;t know how to drink! Ingredients: 2 qt rum 1 qt brandy 1 pt lemon juice 1 1\/2 c tea 1 c sugar Directions: Mix. Pour over a large block of ice AT LEAST 3 hours before drinking. \u00a0(You don&#8217;t want to see what happens if it is not somewhat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/fish-house-punch.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish House Punch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinks","tag-blue-cook-book"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}