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Add a few sliced nectarines, or peaches, and
sweeten to taste.
Let it stand till the sugar is
melted, and then add a sprig of borage. Just before
using add one bottle of Seltzer water, and a large
piece of ice.
Soda-water, Stretton water, or any other natural
spring-water may be substituted for Seltzer.
One Afore,
and a very simple one. Put into a bowl the rind
of one lemon pared very thin, add sugar to taste,
and pour over it a wine-glass of sherry; then add a
bottle of claret, more sugar, a sprig of verbena for
flavour, one bottle of aerated water, and a little
grated nutmeg ; strain and ice.
My Ideal Claret Cup.
Two wine-glasses old brandy, one wine-glass
cura^oa, and a little thin lemon-peel, sweeten to
taste, and pour over the mixture two bottles of light
claret. Just before using add a pint bottle of
sparkling moselle, and two bottles of fizzing water.
Flavour with borage, and put a large block of ice
in the bowl.
Nobody who has not tried it can understand
how much the addition of a little sparkling
Moselle improves a claret cup.
" Forward On " Cup.
Put into a large bowl three bottles of claret, a
large wine-glass of cura^oa, one pint of sherry, half
a pint of old brandy, two wine-glasses of raspberry
syrup, three oranges and one lemon cut into slices;
add a few sprigs of borage, a little cucumber-rind.