1847 Oxford night caps (4th edition)

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This beverage is generally given servants at Christmas, and other high festivals of our Church. to RUMFUSTIAN. The yolks of twelve eggs, one quart of strong beer, one bottle of while wine, half a pint of gin, a grated nutmeg, the juice from the peeling of a lemon, a small quantity of cinnamon, and sufficient sugar to sweeten it prepared precisely in the same way as Rum Booze. Such is the intoxicating property of this liquor, that none but hard drinkers will venture to regale themselves with it a second time. THE OXFORD GRACE CUP. The grace cup servM, the cloth away, Jove thought it time to shew his play. Prior* The ancient Grace Cup was a vessel pro- portioned to the number of the company