Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.221) — Terrington 1869

1 pintCherry juice — Kentish cherry-juicebase
2 pintsgin — good unsweetened ginbase
water or ice — water or shaven icedilution
1 dropbitter almond essence — essence of bitter almondsother
sugar — Sweeten to taste.sweetener
  1. Mix the Kentish cherry-juice, bitter almond essence, and gin together.
  2. Sweeten to taste and add water or shaven ice if required.

Ice: Optional

This is one of the fruitiest and most liqueur-adjacent of the gin punches.

Its balance depends heavily on the user-controlled final sweetening and dilution.

See also: Gin Punch a la Gooch, Gin Punch a la Burroughs, Vanilla