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Champagne Cup I

A historical recipe from Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907).

A historical recipe

Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #12069.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12069 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12069). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Pour on a sliced cucumber one pint of sherry and one-half pint of brandy.
  2. Grate the rind of two lemons over a little sugar.
  3. Add it to the mixture with the juice of one lemon and the juice of three oranges, half a pint of Curacao, two bottles of seltzer, three bottles of apollinaris and three bottles of champagne.
  4. Sweeten to taste and ice well.