Cocktails

Milk Punch

Jersey

Traditional drink historically consumed on 'Milk-a-Punch Sunday' (first Sunday in May); made with milk, eggs, sugar, nutmeg, and rum; young people would dress in white and go to the countryside to milk cows and make punch; a historic Jersey May Day tradition.

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Traditional drink historically consumed on 'Milk-a-Punch Sunday' (first Sunday in May); made with milk, eggs, sugar, nutmeg, and rum; young people would dress in white and go to the countryside to milk cows and make punch; a historic Jersey May Day tradition.

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A creamy, sweet, rum-based milk drink; spiced with nutmeg; traditionally consumed on the first Sunday in May; a historic Jersey May Day tradition; rich and warming.

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Jersey

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