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Egg Nogg

Take 1 table-spoonful may be employed many times in succession, of fine sugar, dissolved with 1 table-spoonful especially if they are soaked in boiling water, cold water; 1 egg, 1 wine-glass Cognac brandy, which restores them to their original shape, wine-glass Santa Cruz rum, & tumblerful of and renews their elasticity. The most common milk. Fill the tumbler 1/4 full with shaved ice, mode of fastening down corks is with the shake the ingredients until they are thoroughly mixed together, and grate a little nutmeg on top.

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