Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.181) — Terrington 1869

1 bottleport wine base
2 bottlesSeltzer water dilution
black currant tops, balm, or borage — black-currant tops or balm and borageother
1 bottleRoussillon or Bordeaux — dry Roussillon or Bordeaux wineother
sugar — Sweeten to taste.sweetener
  1. Steep the port with black-currant tops or a very small quantity of balm and borage until sufficiently herbed, then strain.
  2. Mix the herbed port with the dry Roussillon or Bordeaux, ice up, sweeten to taste, and add the seltzer water before serving.

Ice: Ice

This is one of Terrington's best examples of an English red-wine cup leaning away from claret without abandoning the same service grammar.

The wine is only lightly herbed; Terrington is alert throughout the chapter to how easily cups become over-aromatic.

See also: Port-wine Cup No. 2, Good Bishop, Sherry Cup a la W. T.