Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

CHAPTER XIX

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CUPS AND CORDIALS

Five recipes for claret cup--Balaclava cup--Orgeat--Ascot cup--Stout and champagne--Shandy-gaff for millionaires--Ale cup--Cobblers which will stick to the last--Home Ruler--Cherry brandy--Sloe gin--Home-made, if possible--A new industry--Apricot brandy--Highland cordial--Bitters--Jumping-powder-- Orange brandy--"Mandragora"--"Sleep rock thy brain!" 219-231