Milk-Punch. (Hot.)
1 quart milk, warm from the cow.
2 glasses best sherry wine.
4 table-spoonfuls powdered sugar.
4 eggs, the yolks only, beaten light.
Cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.
Bring the milk to the boiling point. Beat up the yolks and sugar together; add the wine; pour into a pitcher, and mix with it, stirring all the time, the boiling milk. Pour from one vessel to another six times, spice, and serve as soon as it can be swallowed without scalding the throat.
This is said to be an admirable remedy for a bad cold if taken in the first stages, just before going to bed at night.