1919 Home made beverages

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Beverages

Alcoholic

tumbler with ice, pour over it the sherry and orange juice, cover, and shake well. Strain into another tumbler con- taining the sugar, stir well, and serve with straws. 2. — Sherry^ J£ pt.; soda water, 1 bottle; Curacoa, 1 glassful; loaf sugar, 1 tablespoonful; crushed ice. Dissolve the sugar in the sherry, and add the liqueur and soda. Put the preparation into tumblers; to each add a few small pieces of ice, and serve. Beverages of this description are usually drunk through straws, but it is merely a matter of taste. 3. — Take sugar, 1 tablespoonful; orange, 2 or 3 slices; sherry, 2 wineglassfuls. Fill the tumbler with shaved ice, and shake well. 4. — To 1 pt. good sherry add an equal measure of heavy simple syrup and one lemon cut in very thin slices. Allow the syrup to stand a few hou»tj strain through a sieve, and bottle for use. 5. — White syrup, 3 pt.; sherry, 1 qt. Add 1 lemon, cut in thin slices. Macerate for 12 hours, and strain. 6. Egg Flip. — Sherry, 1 glassful; 1 egg; loaf sugar, 1 teaspoonful, or to taste; nutmeg; crushed ice. Beat the egg well, add the sugar, sherry, and a little crushed ice, shake well until sufficiently cooled, then strain into a small glass, and serve. Note. — Port wine, or any spirit, may replace the sherry, and the liquor used would, of course, give its name to the "flip." 7. FrappS. — Add 1 pt. of sherry wine to every qt. of lemon water-ice. Shrub Rum, }4 gal.; orange juice, % pt.; lemon juice, J^ pt.; lemons, peel of 2; loaf sugar, 2 lb.; water, 2J^ pt. Slice the lemon peel very thinly and put it, with the fruit juice and spirit, in a large covered jar. Let it stand for 2 days, then pour over it the water in which the sugar has been dissolved, take out the lemon peel, and leave it for 12 days before using. 210