Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Milk Punch. ✠

• 1 tumbler of milk, well sweetened.
• 2 tablespoonfuls best brandy, well stirred in.

I have known very sick patients to be kept alive for days at a time by this mixture, and nothing else, until Nature could rally her forces. Give very cold with ice.