which is a cold edition of the above, and may also be made with brandy or whisky. In
A Surgeon-Major,
which is a still more valuable—and more expensive—restorative, two eggs are used, and the tumbler is filled up with the choicest brand of champagne kept on the premises.
Blue Blazer
is a “grateful, comforting” drink in cold weather. And it is advisable that the nerves of the mixer be in thoroughly good order, and that he (or she) be steady of hand.
Put into a silver cup, which has been previously heated, a wine-glassful of Scotch whisky (proof) and one wine-glassful of boiling water; set on fire, and have ready another cup, also heated, and pass the blazing liquid from one cup to the other, three or four times. Serve in a small tumbler with a little sugar and lemon.
If a good dispensing chemist be within easy reach, the searcher after the hidden truth may try a
Locomotive.
Beat two eggs with a little honey in a jug, add a pinch of ground cloves and a liqueur-glass of curaçoa; then add, beating all the time, one pint of burgundy made boiling hot. Dust with nutmeg. {170}