Rumfustian
Source:
The Bartender's Guide: How To Mix Drinks
page:
72
This is the singular name bestowed upon a drink very much in vogue with English sportsmen, after their return from a day's shooting, and is concocted thus:
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egg
Ingredient: egg
What it is: AdditiveBird eggs are a common food and one of the most versatile ingredients used in cooking and have long been used in drinks. Usually used to add consistency and foam, egg whites and yolks are usually separated with "silver" indicating the white and "golden" the yolk. Modern chicken eggs are much larger, so use the smallest ones available.
1
quart
ale
(strong beer)
Ingredient: ale
What it is: BeerAle is a type of beer brewed from malted barley using a top-fermenting brewers' yeast.
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pint
gin (Jenever)
Ingredient: gin (Jenever)
Also Known As: Holland gin, , Dutch gin, Genever What it is: GinAlso called Holland Gin or Genever, it is a juniper-flavored and strongly alcoholic traditional liquor of the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France, from which gin evolved.
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bottle
sherry wine
Ingredient: sherry wine
What it is: SherryFortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. In Spanish, it is called vino de Jerez. Typically dry, "fino" sherry when only the generic name is used.
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cinnamon
Ingredient: cinnamon
What it is: SpiceSpice from the bark of the small evergreen tree belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka.
nutmeg
grated
Ingredient: nutmeg
What it is: SpiceSeed from an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of Indonesia, or Spice Islands. Nutmeg is the actual seed of the tree while mace is the dried "lacy" reddish covering or arillus of the seed. Nutmeg and mace have similar taste qualities, nutmeg having a slightly sweeter and mace a more delicate flavour. Nutmeg is a tasty addition to cheese sauces and is best grated fresh (see nutmeg grater). Nutmeg is a traditional ingredient in mulled cider, mulled wine, and eggnog.
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loaf sugar
lumps
Ingredient: loaf sugar
Also Known As: sugarloaf What it is: AdditiveTraditional form in which refined sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century when granulated and cube sugars were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top, it was the end product of a process that saw the dark molasses-rich raw sugar, which had been imported from sugar cane growing regions such as the Caribbean and Brazil, refined into white sugar. Raw cane sugar the best, easily available substitute.
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lemon
The yolks of a dozen eggs are well whisked up, and put into a quart of strong beer; to this is added a pint of gin; a bottle of sherry is put into a saucepan, with a stick of cinnamon, a nutmeg grated, a dozen large lumps of sugar, and the rind of a lemon peeled very thin; when the wine boils, it is poured upon the gin and beer, and the whole drunk hot.