TWO POTIONS

LOVING CUP

     Put in a bowl some toasted bread;  add six ounces of sugar, one lump of sugar saturated in orange-flower essence; grate half a nutmeg and mix it with the same quantity of cinnamon and ginger in powder.  
  
     Put this in the bowl together with a quart of good ale, one bottle sherry, and a little soda water.  

     The soda water is the least important of these ingredients and can be dispensed with.

 

TONIC WINE

     In a quart of white wine soak for two days five grammes of juniper berries, fifteen grammes of Calisaia (a kind of Peruvian bark) and fifteen of bitter quassia.   

     Filter the liquid and mix with an equal quantity of bitter orange syrup.  Drink a Madeira glass of this every day. 


(Warmly recommended by an aged friend.)

From:  Norman Douglas, Venus In The Kitchen, Kingswood, Surrey, England, 1952).



Painting:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Loving Cup, 1867, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.
  


Dedication:  JRR on his birthday.