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

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antiquaries to the practice ef the Danes heretofore in England, who frequently used to stab or cut the throats of the natives :while they were drinking, the persons stand– ing being the sureties that the one holding the cup should come to no harm while partaking of it. Recipe. Extract the juice from the · peeling of a lemon, and cut the remainder into thin slices ; put it into a jug or bowl, and pour on it three half-pints of strong home brewed beer• and a bottle of mountain wine ; grate a nutmeg into it; sweeten it to your taste; stir it till the sugar is dissolved, and then add three *Home-brewed beer is hererecommended, as some com– mon brewers and publicans mix witli their beer sulphuric acid, copperas, t.obacco, capsicum, coculus Indicua, cori– ander seeds, grains of paradise, allum, and burnt sugar. It is a well-known fact, thet at this peri