Tract · Cocktails

Punch · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 3/5

Hock Cup

Hock Cup No. 1 combines hock, sherry, sliced lemon, balm or borage, sugar, and seltzer water.

Served in Cup.

Variants (2)

Drinking Cups and Their Customs by Henry Porter and George Roberts (1869, p.51) — Drinking Cups 1869 No. 1

1 bottlehock base
1 bottleseltzer — seltzer-waterdilution
1 lemonlemon slice — lemongarnish
3 wine-glasssherry modifier
borage — balm or borageother
sugar — Sweeten to taste.sweetener
  1. Let hock, sherry, lemon, and balm or borage stand two hours; sweeten to taste and add seltzer water.

Garnish: Lemon and borage

Drinking Cups and Their Customs by Henry Porter and George Roberts (1869, p.51) — Drinking Cups 1869 No. 2 May-Trank

1 bottlehock — light hockbase
0.25 orangeorange slice — orangegarnish
sparkling wine — Optional: one bottle to four or five bottles of still hock.other
12 sprigwoodruff — Remove after half an hour.other
2 ouncepowdered sugar sweetener
  1. Infuse woodruff and orange in hock with sugar; remove herbs after half an hour. Add sparkling wine and a little ice if desired.

Garnish: Orange

Ice: Ice

Source says this May-Trank is popular on the Rhine.