Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — Gigantic Punch Bowl. [ARTICLE]

Gigantic Punch Bowl.

The largest punch bowl ever weed was at a party given at Allcant by Admiral Edward Russell In 1694, when a marble fountain was converted for the occasion Into a punch bowL The Ingredients used In brewing the punch Included four hogsheads of brandy, one of Malaga wine, 20 gallons of Ume juice, 2,500 lemons, 1300 pounds of white sugar, five pounds of grated nutmeg, 800 toasted biscuits and eight hogsheads 6t water. A boy in a boat filled the cups of the 6,000 persons who partook of the contents of the mighty punch bpwL