1929 The Bon Vivant's Companion or How to Mix Drinks by Jerry Thomas

Flips

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RUM FLIP

Which Dibdin ^ has immortalized as the favorite beverage of sailors (although we believe they seldom indulge in it)— is made by adding a gill of rum to the beer, or substituting rum and water, when malt liquor cannot be procured. The essential in flips of all sorts is, to produce the smoothness by repeated pouring back and forward between two vessels, and beating up the eggs well in the first instance; the sweet ening and spices according to taste.

RUM FLIP

Another recipe

Keep grated ginger and nutmeg with a little fine dried lemon peel,rubbed together in a mortar. To make a quart of flip: put the ale on the fire to warm, and beat up three or four eggs with four ounces of moist sugar, a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg or ginger, and a gill of good old rum or brandy.When the ale is near to boil, put it into one pitcher,and the rum and eggs, etc.,into another; turn it from one pitcher to another till it is as smooth as

cream.

1 Charles Dibdin, the English naval song writer and dramatist. He wrote seventy dramatic pieces and about nine hundred songs, of which Poor Jack and Tom Bowling are the most famous.

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