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

Negus

A port or sherry negus sweetened to taste, diluted with water, and flavoured with lemon peel and nutmeg.

Served in Glass.

Variants (2)

Drinks a La Mode by Mrs de Salis (1891, p.29) — Drinks a La Mode 1891

thin rindlemon peel — lemon rindacid
1 partport or sherry base
2 partwater — Double the quantity of wine.dilution
1 gratenutmeg other
to tastesugar sweetener
  1. Sweeten port or sherry to taste, add double the quantity of water, flavour with thin lemon rind, and grate nutmeg over it.

Garnish: Nutmeg

Café Royal Cocktail Book by W. J. Tarling (1937, p.154)

0.2 partlemon juice acid
0.1 partGrenadine base
0.6 partrum — Negrita rumbase
0.1 partcuracao — Pollen's white curaçaomodifier
  1. Shake.

Invented by S. T. Yakimovitch.