Take a spiral glass (see that you get this) and fill it one-third full of maraschino; place carefully in it the unbeaten yolk of an egg. Surround this with {160} syrup of vanilla, and fill up the glass with old brandy. These ingredients _must not mix_; and in order to prevent this, pour them over the back of the bowl of a teaspoon into the glass. _Brandy Scaffa_ sounds Amur’can, and is. Here again the ingredients must not be allowed to commingle, and the egg-yolk is omitted. A quarter of a glass of raspberry syrup, into a spiral glass, and a like amount of maraschino and green chartreuse. Fill up—I always make this in an old-fashioned champagne-glass, and generally omit the raspberry syrup—with the best old brandy you can get. _Corpse Reviver_ is the same sort of drink, with some difference in the ingredients. A spiral glass, filled with one-third maraschino, one-third brandy, and one-third curaçoa. If the corpse came my way and I loved it, I should leave out the maraschino. In _Golden Slipper_ the egg-yolk reappears. Place the yolk of an egg in a spiral wine-glass, half full of yellow chartreuse. Fill up with Dantzicer goldwasser, and do not let the ingredients mix. This goldwasser is said to be the oldest liqueur known in Europe, having been introduced {161} into France by the Italians in the time of Catharine de Medici. Its origin is undoubtedly Italian, and the colourless liquor made in Dantzic, with the fragments of gold leaf floating therein, is a fiery imitation of the real thing. One more short recipe to finish this chapter. _Heap of Comfort._ Put into a small tumbler the yolk of one egg, two-thirds of a wine-glass of sherry, one-third of a wine-glass of brandy, ten drops of curaçoa, and a teaspoonful of sugar. Add pounded ice, shake well, and strain into a coloured claret-glass. Dust over with nutmeg. {162} CHAPTER XV STILL HARPING ON THE DRINK Sangaree — Slings — John Collins — Smashes — Sour beverages — Home Ruler — Burning brandy — A prairie oyster — A turkey ditto — About negus, for white-frock and black-mitten parties — Egg nogg — A doctor — A surgeon-major — A new locomotive — Rumfustian — Pope — Bull’s milk — A bosom caresser — The Colleen Bawn — Possets — Sir Fleetwood Fletcher. “Sangaree” is generally associated with soft-shell crabs and “yellow Jack”; nevertheless here are a few recipes for concocting the drink, in its various forms. _Ale Sangaree._ Put into a large tumbler a teaspoonful of sifted sugar, and a tablespoonful of water to dissolve it. Add a small lump of ice, and fill up with a mixture of bitter and Burton ales. Dust with nutmeg. This drink may also be served hot, _without_ the ice; need it be added? _Brandy Sangaree._ Put into a small tumbler one teaspoonful of sugar, half a wine-glassful of water, one wine-glassful {163} of brandy, and fill up with crushed ice. Mix with a spoon, dash the top with port wine, and grated nutmeg.