Ingredients

Thin cut rinds of 4 lemon(s)

1 pint tea

12 ounces superfine sugar

6 ounces lemon juice

1 1/2 cups orange juice

1 cup pineapple juice

1 pint brandy -- brandy

1/2 pint rum -- dark rum

2 bottles Brut champagne

Slices of orange(s)

Slices of pineapple(s)

punch cup

Instructions:

Put the lemon rinds into the tea while the latter is still hot, allowing them to steep together. Add the sugar. Set aside to cool. When cooled, add the fruit juices and the liquor. Place in a punch bowl with one or two large chunks of ice, adding the champagne immediately before serving. Garnish with orange and pineapple slices. If you were to cut the brandy in half, lose the rum and pineapple juice and pitch in a bottle of Madeira, your fellow creatures would not turn up their snouts.

The Wondrich Take:

The Prince Regent was a pig. George Augustus Frederick, son of the mad George III, was smart like pigs are, but of course that's not what we mean. Prinnie, as his buds called him, had more than his fair share of appetite for fleshly delights. Chiefly fucking -- he could keep any number of "amusements" going at once -- but also eating, and the only problem he ever had with strong drink was a lack of sufficient quantity. As a consequence, there are about one and a half billion different recipes for Regent Punch, each claiming to have been "held in high esteem" by his Nibs. He must've drank punch like George Washington slept or Jackie O shopped: everywhere.

In his later years, once the Royal Pop had snuffed it and Prinnie became Kingie, he spent his evenings inhaling a certain punch made up by his maître d', one Mr. Maddison. "That was the only time he was agreeable," according to one observer. (Quoth The Times of London when he died: "There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow-creatures.") We've been unable to locate Mr. M's precise recipe, but this little speedball -- note the tea -- is close enough.

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