Put four tablespoonfuls of sugar into a bowl, strain over it five tablespoonfuls of lemon-juice, and set on ice for an hour. Stir well and mix into the syrup a tablespoonful of pineapple-dice, a handful of strawberries, or of white grapes, seeded and halved, and a few thin slices of cucumber. Empty a quart bottle of Sauterne upon the mixture; pour over a block of ice into a punch-bowl, and add a bottle of soda-water that has been on the ice for several hours. A few leaves of citron-aloes or lemon-verbena are sometimes laid upon the surface of Sauterne