Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.193) — Terrington 1869

1 bottlecider base
2 glassessherry — dry sherrymodifier
1 lbice — shaven iceother
1 gilllemonade — good lemonadeother
3 sprigsmint other
1 teaspoonfulorange flower water — orange-flower waterother
sugar — Sweeten to taste.sweetener
  1. Put the cider, lemonade, dry sherry, orange-flower water, and mint into an ice pitcher.
  2. Sweeten to taste, add the shaven ice, and serve.

Garnish: Mint sprigs.

Ice: Shaven ice

The name and low-ceremony build make this feel like a practical railway-age pleasure drink rather than a formal bowl.

Orange-flower water is the key signature note separating it from more ordinary cider coolers.

See also: Cider Cup for a Gathering, White-wine Julep, Stone Fence