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Hot Midnight Punch

4 servings

Ingredients

• 200 g Cube sugar
• 5 Stk Oranges
• 5 Stk Lemons
• 400 g Granulated sugar
• 0.75 L Water or Russian tea
• Cloves (nach Bedarf)
• Cinnamon bark (nach Bedarf)
• Mace (nach Bedarf)
• 0.5 L Brandy
• 0.25 L arrack

Instructions

1. Rub sugar cubes on the zest of 5 oranges and 5 lemons each to absorb essential oils.
2. Squeeze the juice from the fruits.
3. Heat sugar cubes, fruit juice, granulated sugar and water or Russian tea (flavored with cloves, cinnamon stick or nutmeg if desired) in a pot.
4. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve into a heatproof container.
5. Add brandy and arrack and stir well.
6. Pour hot into glasses and place an orange and lemon slice on the rim of each glass.
7. Serve immediately.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.