1860 Oxford Night Caps

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a part of their entertainment.® On the festi val of St. David, Cambria's tutelary Paint, an immense silver gilt howl, containing ten gallons, and which was presented to Jesus College by Sir Watkin "W". Wjmne in 1732, is filled with Swig, and handed round to those who are invited on that occasion to sit at their festive and hospitable board. The following is the method of manu facturing it at that College. Recipe. Put into a bowl half a pound of Lisbon sugar; pour on it one pint of warm beer; grate a nutmeg and some ginger into it: add four glasses ofsherry and five additional pints of beer; stir it well; sweeten it to your taste: let it stand covered up two or three hours, then put three or four slices of bread cut thin and toasted brown into it, and it is fit for use. Sometimes a couple or ' Swig was formerly almostexclusively confined to Jesus College; it is now, liowever, a great favourite throughout the University.