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WINTER DRINKS.
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FLIPS.
{See also fiages 55 and 108.)
Ale Flip or Egg Hot.
Beat well together in a jug, or a bowl, four
eggs with a quarter of a pound of icing sugar;
then add by degrees, stirring all the time, two
quarts of boiling old or Burton ale, and half a
pint ofgin ; pour backwards and forwards from
one jug to another till the flip is smooth and
finely frothed, and then serve; grate a little
nutmeg on the top of each tumbler. This is a
capital drink for a cold night.
Brandy.
Put into a small tumbler the yolk of one egg
well beaten, one teaspoonful of icing sugar, and
one glass ofbrandy; fill two thirds with boiling
water, stirring well, and dust with nutmeg.