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My question is: How old is Arrack Punch?

I also have some excerpts to share, about Arrack Punch:


The Times, of London, 14th January 1788.

"With the highest respect to the memory of the late Doctor Walsh--we hope it 
will not be the incompatible that we mention a small circumstance in relation 
to him, illustrative of that propensity so eminently characteristic of the 
gentlemen of Ireland.--The Doctor, sometime previous to his death, had made 
one of a white-bait party to Gravesend;--The gentlemen, after dinner, agreed 
on arrack punch for their beverage; and the Doctor, who was an excellent 
composer of that liquor, was requested to act as apothecary on the occasion. 
On taking the sense of the company as to the quality of the composition, some 
proposed the addition of acid, others that of sugar, more of spirit--" I'll 
tell you what, gentlemen," said the Doctor, "the punch may not be quite so 
good as you could with, but by G-d if you MEND it at all, you'll entirely 
SPOIL it."


The Public Register Or Freemans Journal, of Dublin, 12th March 1765

"...the Officer entertained him with a Dinner, and Arrack Punch,..."


Cheers!

George S.


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