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oranges, and add the juice of four more le–
mons and a proportionate quantity of sugar.
ORANGEADE.
The mixture may also be made into
Orangeade by omitting the wine, spirits,
and lemons, and squeezing into it the juice
of twelve oranges in addition to those men–
tioned in the recipe for Egg Punch.
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POSSET.
From fam'd Barbadoes, on the western main,
Fetch sugar, ounces four ; fetch sack from Spain
A pint; and from the Eastern Indian coast
Nutmeg, the glory of our northern toasl;
0 'er ftaming coals let them together heat,
Till the all-conquering sack dissolve the sweet ;
O'er such another fire put eggs just ten,
New-born from tread of cock and rump of hen;
Stir them with steady hand and conscience pricking,
To see th' untimely end of ten fine chicken :
From shining shelf take down the brazen skellet,
A quart of milk from gentle cow will fill it ;
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