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Put into a bowl half a pound of Lisbon
sugar;
pour on it one pint of warm beer;
grate a nutmeg and some ginger into it: add
four glasses of sherry and five additional
pints of beer; stir it well; sweeten it to your
taste : let it stand covered up two or three
hours, then put three or four slices of bread
cut thin and toasted brown into it, and it is fit
for use. · Sometimes a couple or three slices
of lemon, and a few lumps of loaf sugar
rubbed on the peeling of a lemon, are
introduced.
Bottle this mixture, and in a few days it
may be drank in a state of effervescence.
The Wassail Bowl, or Wassail Cup, was
formerly prepared in nearly the same way
as at present, excepting that roasted apples,
or crab apples, were introduced instead of
toasted bread. And up
to
the present pe–
riod, in some parts of the kingdom, there are
persons who keep up the ancient custom of
regaling their friends and neighbours on
Christmas-eve and Twelfth-eve with a Was-