The Bar-tender's Guide/Sleeper

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The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks (1887)
by Jerry Thomas
3879755The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks — Cocktail Drinks1887Jerry Thomas

Sleeper.

  • Take 1 gill of old rum.
  • Take 1 ounce of sugar.
  • Take 2 fresh raw eggs.
  • Take ½ pint of water.
  • Take 6 cloves.
  • Take 6 coriander seeds.
  • Take 1 lemon.

Boil the cloves and coriander, with a bit of cinnamon in the water; mix together the rum, sugar, the yolks of the eggs and the juice of half the lemon; whisk them all together, and strain into a tumbler.