Mulled Wine.
2 eggs, beaten very light with the sugar.
1 table-spoonful white sugar.
2 full glasses white wine.
½ cup boiling water.
A little nutmeg.
Heat the water, add the wine; cover closely and bring almost to a boil. Pour this carefully over the beaten egg and sugar; set in a vessel of boiling water and stir constantly until it begins to thicken. Pour into a silver goblet, grate the nutmeg on the top, and let the invalid drink it as hot as it can be swallowed without suffering.
A Summer Drink. (Very good.)
2 lbs. Catawba grapes.
3 table-spoonfuls loaf sugar.
1 cup of cold water.
Squeeze the grapes hard in a coarse cloth, when you have picked them from the stems. Wring out every drop of juice; add the sugar, and when this is dissolved, the water, surround with ice until very cold; put a lump of ice into a pitcher, pour the mixture upon it, and drink at once.
You can add more sugar if you like, or if the grapes are not quite ripe.