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Definition of Fish house punch
1. Noun. A punch made of rum and brandy and water or tea sweetened with sugar syrup.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish House Punch
Literary usage of Fish house punch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland (1894)
"fish-house punch" as delicious as that of London civic banquets. There be no fish
in the fair river now; they have all vanished before the combined forces ..."
2. Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania by Charles Henry Browning (1912)
"... celebrated insiduous "Fish-house Punch." In 1750, according to Scull, coming
from town on the then so-called Lancaster road, "only a dirt-road, ..."
3. Early Philadelphia: Its People, Life and Progress by Horace Mather Lippincott (1917)
"Fish-house Punch " is famous far beyond Philadelphia and is brewed from an old
Colonial recipe and served to the members from a bowl brought from China by ..."
4. The American Historical Record by Benson John Lossing (1872)
"... pig and sirloin steaks together with the productive industry of the Angler
and Fowler, washed down with bowls of Fish House punch. ..."
5. Consolidated Library of Modern Cooking and Household Recipes by Christine Terhune Herrick (1904)
"Philadelphia Fish-House Punch Mix together, adding ice, % pint of lemon juice; %
pound of white sugar dissolved in sufficient water; y_> pint of cognac ..."
6. Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society, Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home by Clara Jessup Moore (1878)
"A side-table or buffet, with fish-house punch, sandwiches, frozen coffee and
frozen punch, hot bouillon, and one or two hot dishes, such as chicken ..."
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