TWO POTIONS

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

     In a quart of whitewine soak for two days five grammes of juniper berries, fifteen grammes of Calisaia(a kind of Peruvian bark) and fifteen of bitter quassia.   

     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.