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Winter Cordials
Brazenose College, to introduce this into the
refec tory after dinner on Shrove Tuesdays.
RECIPE
Sweet en three quarts of good ale with white
sugar, and serve it in a bowl with six roasted
apples Boating in it.
Gingered Egg Flip
(Enough for eight people)
Take a ga llon of good mild ale, an ounce of
powdered ginger, half a pound of fin ely powdered
sugar candy, and eight eggs.
Break the eggs into a large jug and beat them
up with the ginger and sugar ; add gradually
half a pint of cold beer, stirring all the time.
Heat the remaining three and a half pints '.of
beer, and just before it boils pour it quickly into
the jug, whisking all the time.
Add a few grains of vanilla or cinnamon for
flavouring.
Caudle
Beat up an egg till it fr oths, then add a glass
of sherry and half a pint of hot gruel. Flavour
with lemon peel, nutmeg and sugar.
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