LOVINGCUP
Put in a bowl sometoasted bread; add six ounces of sugar, one lump of sugar saturated inorange-flower essence; grate half a nutmeg and mix it with the same quantity ofcinnamon and ginger in powder.
Put this in the bowltogether with a quart of good ale, one bottle sherry, and a little sodawater.
The soda water is theleast important of these ingredients and can be dispensed with.
TONICWINE
Filter the liquid andmix with an equal quantity of bitter orange syrup. Drink a Madeira glassof this every day.
(Warmly recommended byan aged friend.)
From: Norman Douglas, Venus In The Kitchen, Kingswood, Surrey, England, 1952).
Painting: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Loving Cup, 1867,NationalMuseum of Western Art, Tokyo.
Dedication: JRR on his birthday.
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