Capillaire Drink

Into a tumbler of fresh cold water pour a tablespoonful of capillaire, and the same of good vinegar.

Tamarinds, currants, fresh or in jelly, or scalded currants or cranberries, make excellent drinks, with a little sugar, or not, as may be agreeable.

Herb Tea

Put a little tea sage, two sprigs of balm, and a little wood-sorrel into a jug, having first washed and dried them; cut thin a small lemon, and clear it from the white; slice it, and put a piece of the peel in; then pour in three pints of boiling water; sweeten, and cover closely.

Barley And Capillaire Drink

Wash an ounce of pearl barley; change the water twice; then put to it three pints of water, an ounce of sweet almonds beaten fine, and a piece of lemon peel; boil till you have a smooth liquor; then put syrup of lemons, and capillaire.

Tamarind Water

Boil three pints of water with an ounce of tamarinds; three ounces of currants, and two ounces of stoned raisins, till nearly a third is consumed; strain it on a piece of lemon peel, which remove in an hour, as it gives a bitter taste if left too long.

Bishop

Roast a lemon, and stick it full of cloves; meantime, boil in a pint of water equal quantities of spice to suit the palate, such as mace, cinnamon, cloves, etc. Put the lemon into a bowl, and pour over it the extract from the spices. Now add a bottle of port, made nearly boiling, and sweeten the whole with loaf sugar. Bishop may also be made with claret, or equal parts of port and claret.

Cool Tankard

One quart of ale, one glass of sherry, one of brandy, one of capil-laire, the juice of a lemon, four ounces of cream of tartar. Mix and strain half an ounce of sugarcandy, quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar, a few lemon and orange chips. Pour upon them one quart of boiling water. When cold strain it off.

Drink For A Sick Room

Put a teacupful of cranberries into a cup of water, and soak them. In the mean time boil two quarts of water with a large spoonful of oatmeal and a piece of lemon peel; then add the cranberries and as much loaf sugar as will leave a slight acid flavour of the fruit, and a quarter of a pint of sherry (or less). Boil all for half an hour, and strain it off.

Brandy Bitters

Steep a quarter of a pound of dried orange and lemon peel, and half an ounce of fresh peel, in one pint of good brandy for ten days, frequently shaking it; then press out the liquor and filter through blotting paper; lastly, dissolve two ounces of loaf sugar therein. This is a very pleasant bitter, either taken alone or mixed with other liquor.

Ginger Cordial

To each pint of strained white currant juice add one quart of best Scotch whisky, half an ounce of ginger bruised, one pound of best loaf sugar and the rind of a lemon. Put it into a jar, tie it down very closely, and let it stand twenty-four hours. Then strain it through a jelly-bag, or filter through paper, the latter is best. Bottle and cork it well. In two years it will be in perfection.