Creator
Grolier Club House Committee
Title
Punch Recipes.
Publisher
1890-1896
Description
In 2016 the Club was contacted on behalf of the descendant of an early Grolier Club member to see whether the Club might be interested in acquiring a small leather-bound notebook, titled “House Committee -- Grolier Club Punch Recipes, 1890-1896.” The price was reasonable, and the purchase was quickly concluded. Alcoholic punches were a common festive feature of New York club life in the 1890s. Many were quite elaborate, and the Grolier Club “Rum Punch” recipe required seven ingredients, a complex series of steps, two days’ preparation time, and a six-month aging process. The acquisition of the booklet coincided with the discovery of a file of complementary material in the Grolier Club’s own House Committee archives, including manuscript notes of a similar rum punch recipe, and a typescript prepared by longtime Grolier Club Librarian Ruth Shepard Granniss.
Source
Purchased in 2016 with Grolier Club Library Harper Funds