1885 New Guide Hotel Bar Restaurant

HOT DRINKS.

sugar, and

Put

the

a

large

beer,

into

cider,

cloves,

enamelled or preserving pan.

Stir until the sugar dissolves

Then have the roasted apples

becomes right hot.

and it

ready, lay them in the bottom of the wassail bowl ;

dust the

float on the rings of

pour in the hot mixture ;

spices over ;

lemon ; decorate the bowl with flowers or holly wreath, and sing This is the drink the farmers in the ** west countrie," carry round their apple trees on Twelfth Night, so that they may have a good crop of apples for the cider making next year. The wassail bowl is I believe, often filled with hot spiced cider instead of the above mixture. Egg Flip. All hail ! wassail! good ale !"

Boiling Water,

1 Glass.

Eggs,

2

Lump Sugar,

2 ozs.

Brandy,

1 Glass.

1 Quart.

Ale,

Beat up the eggs ;

put the ale on the fire ;

put the sugar

; add the boiling water and brandy ;

into a jug

pour the hot

ale to the brandy and sugar ; on to the eggs, and backwards and forwards as rapidly as possible till it is as smooth as silk. Serve in pony glasses* Rum Flipi then pour it

1 Quart.

Ale,

1 Teaspoonful (see page 34.)

Porter Spice,

Jamaica Rum,

2 Glasses.

Eggs,

3

Sugar,

2 ozs.

Beat up the rum and the eggs together, and put them into a jug. Put the ale and sugar on the fire, and as it begins to