Beat up one egg with a pinch of ground cloves, the same of cinnamon, the juice of a quarter of a lemon, half a tablespoonful fine sugar, one jigger Jamaica rum; when well mixed divide into two hot-drink glasses, fill with boiling water; stir and serve.
Hot Lemonade.
The juice of half a lemon, one-half tablespoonful fine sugar, fill up with hot water; mix, add a slice of lemon.
Hot Locomotive.
Beat up the yolk of one egg in a small saucepan with one tablespoonful fine sugar, one pony of honey, four dashes orange curaçoa, one and a half jiggers claret. Put on fire, let it come to the boiling point; mix well. Serve in a mug, add a slice of lemon.
Hot Milk Punch.
Put into a long thin punch-glass one tablespoonful fine sugar, half a jigger brandy, half a jigger St. Croix rum, fill with hot milk; mix and grate a little nutmeg on top.
Hot Scotch.
Dissolve one lump of cut-loaf sugar with a little hot water in a hot-drink glass, add one jigger Scotch whiskey and a small piece lemon-peel, fill with boiling water; mix, grate a little nutmeg on top.