Half a cup of dry coffee, one egg, shell and all. Mix coffee and egg
together, then pour on one quart of boiling water. Boil ten minutes,
and then add half a cup of cold water; pour coffee into the cup and
back again to pot. Let it stand a few minutes.
To make Mead.
One pint and a half of brown sugar, half a pint of molasses. Pour on
this three pints of boiling water. Let this stand till blood warm, then
add two ounces of tartaric acid and one of essence of sassafras.
When cold, bottle.
To use Mead.
Put one tablespoonful of the mead in the bottom of a glass, then fill
two-thirds full of cold water, then stir in one-fourth of a teaspoonful
of soda, and drink while foaming. Make mead before leaving home.