1 pint bottle best porter.

2 glasses pale sherry.

1 lemon peeled and sliced. 1/2 pint ice-water.

6 or 8 lumps of loaf sugar.

1/2 grated nutmeg.

Pounded ice.

This mixture has been used satisfactorily by invalids, for whom the pure porter was too heavy, causing biliousness and heartburn.