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Hot drink · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Nightcap

Nightcap is old ale with wine, gin or brandy, clove essence, and sweetening, served hot.

ale · wine · clove · cold-weather · night

Served in Pint tankard.

Variants (2)

The Gentleman's Table Guide by E. Ricket and C. Thomas (1871, p.51)

0.5 pintale — old alebase
a few dropsclove essence — essence of clovesother
1 glassfortified wine or spirit — wine, gin, or brandyother
sugar — sweetenersweetener
  1. Place the ale, wine or spirit, and clove essence in a pint tankard.
  2. Sweeten to taste.
  3. Make hot, but do not boil.

The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book by Albert Stevens Crockett (1935, p.136)

0.33 partcuracao — orange Curaçaobase
0.67 partrum — Bacardibase
1 yolkegg yolk other
  1. Shake and strain.

Lineage reconciliation

See also: Short Nightcap