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Claret, Mulled.
Put into a bowl the peel and juice of one
lemon, a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and
one wineglass of sherry; make a bottle of claret
quite hot, and add it to the above; then put in
a sprig of verbena, and serve with a dust of
nutmeg.
Columbia Skin.
Put into a small tumbler one wineglass of
Scotch whiskyand a small piece of lemon-peel;
fill the tumbler half full with boiling water.
Locomotive.
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Beat two eggs with a little honey in a small
bowl or a jug, add a pinch of ground cloves
and a liqueur glass of curagoa; then add, beating
all the time, one pint of burgundymade boiling
hot. Dust with nutmeg.
Mulled Port (or other Wine).
The following lines by Jerry Thomas may be
found instructive and amusing :
' First, my dear madam, you must take
Nine eggs, which carefully you'll break ;
Into a bowl you'll drop the white.
The yolks into another by it
Let Betsy beat the whites with switch
Till they appear quite frothed and rich ;
Another hand the yolks must beat
With sugar, which will make them sweet—
Three or four spoonfuls maybe '11 do.
Though some, perhaps, would take but two.
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