Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.198) — Terrington 1869

fruit syrup — Use equal quantity with the cream.base
1 bottleSoda water — soda-waterdilution
cream — Use equal quantity with the fruit syrup.other
ice — shaven iceother
  1. Combine equal quantities of fruit syrup and cream.
  2. Add double that quantity of shaven ice.
  3. 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.

See also: Ching Ching, Spider, Stone Wall