Punch (drink)
As Punch (after Hindi पांच PANC "five" ) is an alcoholic, mostly hot mixed drink called, which originally comes from India and five ingredients ( hence the name) is. The traditional ingredients are arrack, sugar, lemon and tea or water with spices.
History
English sailors of the British East India Company got the drink in India under the Hindustani term " pantsch " (five) know and called it "punch". They brought the drink in the 17th century to Europe, where it was in the UK soon as the favorite spirit of the Tories.
In the 17th century the drink came to Germany. 1735 Johann Heinrich Zedler verdeutschte in his Great full Universal Lexicon All knowledge and skills managed to punch the English name " Puntsch ". The ingredients of the " starcken Getränckes " he stated: spirits, water, sugar, Pomeranzensaft and nutmegs.
In the 18th century the drink was occasionally drunk cold.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had the drink in 1764 met during a trip to England, in Vienna and Salzburg, it was still unknown. Leopold Mozart reported enthusiastically to his friend Hagenauer over the subsequent favorite drink of his son: " Punch, punch is pronounced, and is a drink of water, rum, sugar and Limonien boiled. If hot or cold as desired getruncken ... Punch and a whistle Toback is the English element ". The German Romantic ETA Hoffmann has the punch in his novella The Golden Pot a literary monument to "The Heerbrand reached into the deep pocket of his Matins and brought in three reprises a bottle of arrack, lemons and sugar to the fore. Scarcely had half an hour passed, then evaporated in a delicious punch on Paul 's tables. "
Preparation and variations
The preparation should be taken to ensure that the beverage is heated and not only begins to boil, so that the flavor and alcohol remain. Furthermore, only untreated lemons should be used, as will be added as a flavoring ingredient according to taste and the lemon peel or whole lemon slices.
An old cookbook from 1903 indicates the following punch recipe: " It rubs off the yellow of 4 lemons in sugar, brews 8 Gr. Schwarzthee fine with 1.5 l of boiling water down, presses the juice of the lemons to pour the tea through a handkerchief into a pan, puts the sugar on which the lemons were rubbed into it and pour ¼ l arrack it. Now it covers to the pan and let the punch put over the fire until it comes to a boil; then he is immediately poured and served through a napkin into the punch bowl. "
The alcohol component of arrack, a high -proof spirit made from palm sugar juice and rice mash whose flavor is similar spicy and intense as the rum is now often replaced with rum, brandy or wine.
A known variant is the Feuerzangenbowle. The eggnog is a variant in which the punch eggs - are added - in the form of stiff whipped egg white and egg yolk mixed with rum. The popular in Northern Germany Frisian tea punch is made with weak tea and Kom.
An alcohol-free versions are available to motorists punch, which usually consists of black tea and orange juice and spiced with cinnamon and cloves, and the sweeter punch for children based on fruit.
Especially in Austria, the punch is next to mulled wine and Jagertee the most popular drink at Christmas markets.
The New Year's Eve punch came in 1900 in Germany New Year's Eve in fashion, to toast the new year; Sparkling wine came later in fashion.
Reception
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was content in his Punschlied with four ingredients - lemons, sugar, water, and "spirit" ( spirits) - and pointed it in his spirit:
Punschlied Four elements, Intimately joined, Make life Build the world. Squeezes of lemon Juicy Star! Herb is the life Innermost core. Now with the sugar Linderndem juice Zähmet the astringent Burning power! Pour the water Gushing flood! umfänget water Quiet the universe. Drops of mind Pour in! Living the life Is he alone. Eh it verdüftet Draw out it quickly, Only when he glows, Labet the source.