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To four parts of selter water add one of Moselle wine (or hock), and put a tea-spoonful of powdered sugar into a wine-glassful of this mixture; an ebullition takes place, and you have a sort of champagne which is more wholesome in hot weather than the genuine wine known bv that name.
 
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