This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Take a quart of claret and place it in a saucepan with a quarter of a pound of sugar, a small stick of cinnamon, and the juice of three oranges and two lemons. Raise to boiling point and then pour into a bowl, adding two slices of orange and two of lemon, and a bunch of mint sprinkled with sifted sugar.
This should be served as hot as possible.
 
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