The composition is very simple. Put a lemon-ice in a large tumbler, fill up with soda-water, stir well, and drink.
N.B.—Mr. George Krehl, of “Verrey’s,” who knows something about dog days, and dogs, won the prize offered in the Sporting Times for the best recipe for a summer drink, many years ago, with a similar suggestion. But G. K. added a small glass of Curaçoa, and (I think) a drop or two of Angostura bitters.
Cherry Cobbler
Take one pound of cherries of Kent, free from stalks and stones. Throw them into a pint of boiling syrup, made of one pound of loaf-sugar dissolved in one pint of water. Let the cherries boil as fast as possible—“gallop” is, I believe, the technical word—for ten minutes, and then add a quart of boiling water; put the whole into a pan, and when cold strain. The addition of soda-water will make it all the more watery.
D. D.
[This is not naughty language, but short for Delicious Drink.]
Mix together one pint of raspberries, one pint of {236} strawberries, and one pint of white currants, all free from stalks; mash them well together, and then add two quarts of boiling water, and three quarters of a pound of sifted sugar. Let the mixture remain in a bowl all night—unless you make it early in the morning, when all day will do as well—then strain, and give it the dear children before their dinner.
Raspberry Squash.
Put into a large soda-water tumbler one tablespoonful of raspberry syrup, one tablespoonful of lemon squash (vide above) and a lump of ice; nearly fill the glass with soda-water, and ornament with a thin slice of lemon, and a few red and white raspberries. Drink through straws.