The Bar-tender's Guide/Porter Cup
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Porter Cup.
- Take 1 bottle of porter.
- Take 1 bottle of ale.
- Take 1 glass of brandy.
- Take 1 dessert-spoonful of syrup of ginger.
- Take 3 or 4 lumps of sugar.
- Take ½ nutmeg, grated.
- Take 1 tea-spoonful carbonate of soda.
- Take 1 cucumber.
Mix the porter and ale in a covered jug; add the brandy, syrup of ginger, and nutmeg; cover it and expose it to the cold for half an hour; when served stir in the carbonate of soda, and the rind of the cucumber.