1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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Negus, Slings, Sfc.

spoonful of sugar, 3 lumps of ice in a tumbler fill the tumbler with cider ; well shake up. Excellent Negus. — 1 bottle of sherry (or port), 21- pints of water, juice of 1 lemon, a little of the peel rubbed off on sugar ; grated nutmeg, and sugar

; add 1 drop essence of ambergris, or 10

to taste

all to be made and drunk

drops essence of vanilla ;

warm.

Gin or Whisky Sling. — To 1 gill gin or whisky add tablespoonful of powdered sugar in a soda- water glass, filled with shaven ice ; use straws. Toddy. — Use equal quantities of spirits and hot water, and sugar to taste. Aggie Toddy. — Put a baked apple in a glass add 1 oz. of powdered sugar, 1 gill of brandy,. J pint boiling cider ; grate a little ginger on top' of liquor ; piece of lemon-peel. Whisky Sling. — Thin peel of an orange or lemon soaked in J pint of gin or whisky ; juice of 2 oranges and 1 lemon ; sugar to taste ; add 1 pint of pounded Lake ice ; use straws. Claret Granato. — 2 bottles claret, b bottle sherry, pint of clear orangeade, b pint syrup of capillaire ; mix well together ; immerse in freezer half freeze and serve. Brandy Smash. — 2 sprigs of mint, wine-glass of o 2