Drinking Cups and Their Customs by Henry Porter and George Roberts (1869, p.55) — Drinking Cups 1869

4 lemonlemon peel — lemon rindacid
1 bottlecognac — Cognacbase
1.5 poundlump sugar — Very large lumps.base
0.5 poundblanched almonds garnish
4 peachpeach slices — peachesgarnish
1 bottlesherry — sherry or Madeiramodifier
1 bottlechampagne — Added on serving.other
3 bottleMoselle wine — Moselle or hockother
  1. Place large sugar lumps on a gridiron over a tinned copper stewpan.
  2. Pour cognac by degrees over the sugar and light it so the sugar dissolves through the gridiron as caramel.
  3. Add sherry and fruit materials and digest for fifteen minutes.
  4. Pour in Moselle, transfer to a bowl, and on serving add champagne.

Garnish: Fruit and almonds

Source credits Cutler and serves it in flat champagne glasses with spoons for the fruit.