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KUSi y Devonshire cool Tankard

From The cook and housewife's manual (1847).

Source and licence

From The cook and housewife's manual (1847), printed page 433, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cookandhousewif03johngoog

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Sweeten a bottle of cider with lumps of siyar rubbed on the rind of a large lemon.
  2. Add the juice of the lemon, a quarter pint of sherry, and the grate of half a nutmeg.
  3. like all summer beverages, it may be placed in ice ;
  4. and the flavour ** of our ancestors" may be given with thyme, balm, or mint.
  5. The following receipt for making tearpunch is taken from the Journal des Ck)nnais$atteei UaueUea : — Hyron tea, 8 oz.
  6. ;
  7. black tea, 4 oz.
  8. ;
  9. boiling water, 3 gallons ;
  10. susar, 16 lbs.
  11. ;
  12. old brandy (Eau de VieJ^ two and a half gallons ;
  13. mm, half a gallon ;
  14. citric acid, and spirit of citron, of each three ounces.
  15. The tea is first infused in the water, the citric add and sugar are then dissolved, and the other ingredients added.
  16. 1082.
  17. AthoU Brose.
  18. -^ Mix with a cupful of heaUiejv honey two cupfuls of whisky, alitis moantain-dew, or in this proportion ;
  19. hrandy and rum are also used, though the ^ combination they form with honey cannot be called AthoU Brose, The yolk of an e%^ is sometimes beat up with the brose.