1827 Oxford Night Caps

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sail Bowl, with roasted apples floaiingju it, and which is generally ushered in with great ceremony. Shakspeare allude.s to the Was sail Bowl when he says,in his Midsummer Night's Dream,

Sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In veiy likeness of a roasted crab,

And when she drinks, against her lips I bob. And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.

BROWN BETTY. Brown Betty does not differ materially from the preceding; it is said to have de rived its name from one of the fair sex, ycleped a bedmaker, who invariably recom mended the mixture so nam'ed as a never failing panacea. Recipe. Dissolve a quarter of a pound of brown sugar in one pint of water, slice a lemon