Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.198) — Terrington 1869
| fruit syrup — Use equal quantity with the cream. | base | |
| 1 bottle | Soda water — soda-water | dilution |
| cream — Use equal quantity with the fruit syrup. | other | |
| ice — shaven ice | other |
- Combine equal quantities of fruit syrup and cream.
- Add double that quantity of shaven ice.
- Add the bottle of soda-water and drink at once.
Ice: Shaven ice
This is a useful pre-modern fountain style witness embedded inside a cocktail-era miscellany.
The drink depends on immediate service before the soda collapses into the cream and syrup base.