Egg Wine

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoonful
• 1/2 glass cold water
• 1 glass sherry
• sugar and grated nutmeg to taste

Instructions

1. Beat the egg, mixing with it a tablespoonful of cold water; make the wine-and-water hot, but not boiling;
2. pour it on the egg, stirring all the time.
3. Add sufficient lump sugar to sweeten the mixture, and a little grated nutmeg;
4. put all into a very clean saucepan, set it on a gentle fire, and stir the contents one way until they thicken, but _do not allow them to boil_.
5. Serve in a glass with sippets of toasted bread or plain crisp biscuits.
6. When the egg is not warmed, the mixture will be found easier of digestion, but it is not so pleasant a drink.