How
about the following interesting idea:
Sir, - Remembering
what magnificent pumpkins used to be grown in Central Queensland, way back in
the eighty’s, I presume they are still grown on every station up there, and
wishing to cheer the inland hard-working classes, including the owners,
managers, and overseers, I venture to send you some information taken from the
“Morning Post”, August 17th, in their New York cables. A growing
pumpkin is tapped and sugar dropped in and the plug replaced tightly. Nature
does the rest, and it keeps growing and at length produces a pumpkin wind of
rare excellence and flavour – a stronger wine than the pre-war beverage. Now,
this is something to learn, and I am sure will be welcome to the thirsty souls
in Central Queensland.
Yours faithfully,
Frank N. Snodgrass, 420 Burke-street, Melbourne.
The Western Champion (Barcaldine, Queensland)
September 3, 1927.
A
recipe for Pompion Ale from 1771 keeps on popping up on the Internet, and to be
honest, I thought it was urban myth, but on checking, it is indeed in the
archives of the American Philosophical Society.
Receipt for Pompion Ale.
Let the Pompion be
beaten in a Trough and pressed as Apples. The expressed Juice is to be boiled
in a Copper a considerable Time and carefully skimmed that there be no remains
of the fibrous Part of the Pulp. After that Intention is answered, let the
Liquor be hopped cooled fermented &c as Malt Beer.
If
neither of these recipes suit your impending thirst – and, in truth, there is
not time now to prepare them – perhaps a nice cider punch will do the trick.
Witches Brew.
3 quarts cider
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon whole
cloves or allspice
8 sticks cinnamon
½ cup lemon juice
1 quart orange juice
1 quart ginger ale
1.Boil together five
minutes one quart cider, sugar and spice, stirring till sugar is dissolved.
Cool and strain.
2.Add lemon and
orange juice and chill.
3. Pour over ice in
a hollowed-out pumpkin or punch bowl, and add ginger ale just before serving.
Yield: about four
and a half quarts
New York Times, 26 October, 1951
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