Cocktail Project: Winter Milk Punch
- 4 ounces ruby (red) port
- 8 ounces lime juice
- 9 ounces lemon juice
- 7 ounces orange juice
- 8 dashes Orange Bitters
- 5 ounces brown sugar
- 3 ounces white sugar
- 1 (750 mL) bottle dark rum
- 1 (750 mL) bottle bourbon
- 17 ounces water
- 40 ounces whole milk
- Before you get started juicing, take the peels off the limes, lemons and oranges and mash them up with the port, bitters and sugar.
- Set aside for 15 minutes.
- Add the bottle of dark rum, the bourbon, water and the citrus juices to the mixture.
- Heat the milk in a sauce pot until it just starts to make wisps of steam on the surface.
- Shut the heat off and add a few tablespoons of the spirit/citrus/water mixture to the hot milk.
- After a stir, you will notice it start to break into curds and whey.
- At this point you can add all the ingredients together.
- The mixture will look very unappetizing.
- Dont worry.
- Strain through a strainer with several layers of cheesecloth folded over each other and a coffee filter under the cheesecloth.
- The straining process will become slow after the cheesecloth fills up with curds.
- That curd should not be removed as it is important in the filtration process.
- After all the liquid has fallen through the cheesecloth, it will still be cloudy need to be refridgerated for several hours to overnight.
- The best container is one that is tall, fairly thin and transparent with a large enough opening on top for a ladle.
- We use quart containers.
- It is okay to separate the liquid into a few containers.
- After settling for several hours you will see a separation between a silt-like substance on the bottom and a larger amount of clear liquid on top.
- Simply scoop the clear liquid with a ladle into a clean container.
- Dont get greedy: if the liquid starts clouding up from the bottom, stop.
- After you have taken as much of the clear liquid as you can, mix the remainders of each of the cloudy containers and place in the refrigerator to settle again.
- Repeat process.
- Serve the drink over ice, 3 to 4 ounces per serving.
port, lime juice, lemon juice, orange juice, orange bitters, brown sugar, white sugar, rum, bourbon, water, milk
Taken from www.foodrepublic.com/recipes/cocktail-project-winter-milk-punch/ (may not work)