Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.178) — Terrington 1869

1 bottlesauterne base
1 bottleSeltzer water — Add when ready to serve.dilution
1 sliceCucumber garnish
1 wine-glassAmontillado sherry — Amontilladomodifier
1 dropambergris essence on sugar — ambergris on sugarsweetener
1 ozsugar candy — white bruised sugar-candysweetener
  1. Mix the sugar, Amontillado, and ambergris together.
  2. Add the cucumber and Sauterne and ice the mixture up.
  3. Add the seltzer water when ready to serve.

Garnish: Slice of cucumber.

Ice: Iced

The ambergris note makes this one of the more perfumed numbered wine cups in the book.

The aromatic sugar base is the key structural move here.

See also: Sauterne No. 3, Orange Punch, Champagne Cup a la Ariadne

Terrington warns to use only half the ambergris-charged lump because ambergris is very powerful.