1869 Drinking Cups and their Customs (Mixellany)

CXTIS AND THEIB CUSTOMS.

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Lamb's Wool. To one quart of strong hot ale add the pulp of six roasted apples, together with a small quantify of grated nutmeg and ginger, with a sufficient quantity of raw sugar to sweeten it; stir the mixture assiduously, and let it be serFed hot. Of equal antiquity, and of nearly the same composi- tion;, is the Wassail Bowl, which in many parts of England is still partaken of on Christmas Eve, and is alluded to by Shakspeare In his " Midsummer Night ? s Dream/* In Jesus College, Oxford, we are told, it is drunk on the Festival of St. David, out of a silver gilt bowl holding ten gallons, which was presented to that College by Sir Watkin William Wynne, in 1732. The Wassail Bowl Put into a quart of warm beer one pound of raw sugar, on which grate a nutmeg and some ginger j then add four glasses of sherry and two quarts more of beer, with three slices of lemon; add more sugar, If required, and serve it with three slices of toasted bread floating In it. Another genus of beverages, if so it may be termed, of considerable antiquity, comprise those compositions having milk for their basis, or, as Dr. Johnson describes them, i€ milk curdled with wine and other acids/* known under the name of Possets—such as milk-posset, pepper- posset, cider-posset, or egg-posset. Most of these, now-