1872 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks (Mixellany)

Negus, Slings, 8fc. 195 spoonful of sugar, 3 lumps of ice in a tumbler; •fill the tumbler with cider; well shake up. Excellent Negus. —1 bottle of sherry (or port), 2|- pints of water, juice of 1 lemon, a little of the peel rubbed off on sugar; grated nutmeg, and sugar to taste; add 1 drop essence of ambergris, or 10 drops essence of vanilla; all to be made and drunk warm. Gin or Whisky Sling. —To 1 gill gin or whisky- add tablespoonful of powdered sugar in a soda- water glass, filled with shaven ice;. use straws Toddy. —Use equal quantities of spirits and hot water, arid sugar to taste. Apple Toddy. —Put a baked apple in a glass; add 1 oz. of powdered sugar, 1 gill of brandy, -|- pint boiling cider; grate a little ginger on top of liquor; piece of lemon-peel. Whisky Sling. —Thin peel of an orange or lemon soaked in J pint of gin or whisky; juice of 2 oranges and 1 lemon ; sugar to taste; add 1 pint of pounded Lake ice ; use straws. Claret Granato. —2 bottles claret, J bottle sherry, pint of clear orangeade, J pint syrup of capillaire ; mix well together; immerse in freezer; half freeze and serve. Brandy Smash. —2 sprigs of mint, wine-glass of o 2