Put a pint of port wine into a jug, and rub a quarter of a pound of sugar, in lumps, on the rind of a lemon; then squeeze the juice of the lemon and strain it, adding the sugar and lemon juice to the port wine, with a little grated nutmeg. Add to this a quart of boiling water, cover the jug, and when cool the beverage will be fit for use. _Sherry Negus_ is made with an extra quarter of a pound of sugar; and a wine-glassful of noyeau or maraschino may be added. _Egg Nogg_ is a bile-raiser, which is made in a large tumbler, and therefore comes under the heading of “Long Drinks.” Beat up an egg with a tablespoonful of sifted sugar; add one tablespoonful of boiling water, one wine-glassful of brandy, and one wine-glassful of rum. Fill up the tumbler with boiling milk, mix well, and dust with nutmeg. _Sherry Egg Nogg_ One egg beaten up with a tablespoonful of sugar in a large tumbler, two glasses of sherry; fill up with boiling milk, mix, and dust with nutmeg. “In another place,” I gave the recipe for {169} _A Doctor_, 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} _Rumfustian._ Beat up in a large tumbler or jug the yolks of two eggs, with a tablespoonful of sugar; then take half a pint of Burton ale, one wine-glassful of gin, one wine-glassful of sherry, a little spice, and the rind of a quarter of a lemon. Let the ale, wine, and gin, mixed together, come to the boil, then pour into the egg mixture, whisking rapidly; serve hot, with a dash of nutmeg atop. _Pope_ is a compound of burgundy and brandy (not too much brandy, please) with a little sugar added, poured over two Seville oranges, roasted and cut into quarters. The mixture is then boiled and strained. But, personally, I am not partial to this pope, which is even nastier when made with champagne. _Bull’s Milk._