1871 Oxford Night Caps a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university

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Some prefer it without the spices, others without lemons. To each gallon of water add four pounds of the whitest, purest, and best tasted honey, and the peeling of two lemons; boil it half an hour. Scum it when cold. Put it into a cask, add some yeast to it; when it has done fermenting, stop the cask up close, and at the expiration of eight months bottle off. Ir" this liquor is properly kept, the taste of the honey will go off, and it will resemble Tokay both in strength and flavour. The following Cups are added to tlte original work. CLARET CUP. Two bottles of claret, two bottles of soda water, one wine glass of brandy, half a wine glass of curacoa, the peel of one lemon (very thin), sweetened with capillaire or powdered