1871 Oxford Night Caps a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university
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11ngar, two or three pieces of the outer rind of a lemon, and a wine glass and a half of sherry. (Throw in half a dozen strawberries, if in season.) Fill up with pounded ice. Mix by pouring rapidly from one tumbler to another several times. Drink through a straw. This fashionable compound was published by a party of speculating gentlemen, who have denominated themselves "the Wenham Lake Ice Company." And it appears, that the Company imports an immense quantity of ice from Wenham lake in America, which is transmitted to any part of the united kingdom by American refrigerators or por– table ice houses, and sold through the agencies of Tradesmen residing at Liver– pool, Birmingham, Manchester, Dublin, Hastings, Richmond, and Blackheath.
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