Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.219) — Terrington 1869

1 lemonlemon juice — Juice of the same lemon.acid
0.5 pintgin base
1 lemonoleo-saccharum — lemon rind rubbed on loaf-sugarbase
2 bottlesSoda water — soda-waterdilution
1 wine-glassMaraschino modifier
1 pintice — shaven iceother
2 ozsugar — loaf-sugarsweetener
  1. Rub the essence of the lemon on the loaf-sugar and dissolve it in the juice of the same lemon.
  2. Add the gin, Maraschino, shaven ice, and soda-water and serve.

Ice: Shaven ice

This is one of the most polished of the gin-punch variants and closely tracks the era's citrus-oleo logic.

The rubbed sugar is the key aromatic extraction step.

See also: Gin Punch a la Terrington, Gin Punch a la J. Day, Spider