“The bridge tables were not set out in the garden-room, which entailed a scurry over damp gravel on a black, windy night, but in the little square parlour above her dining-room, where Withers, in the intervals of admitting her guests, was laying out plates of sandwiches and the chocolate cakes, reinforced when the interval for refreshments came with hot soup, whisky and syphons, and a jug of "cup" prepared according to an ancestral and economical recipe, which Miss Mapp had taken a great deal of trouble about. A single bottle of white wine, with suitable additions of ginger, nutmeg, herbs and soda-water, was the mother of a gallon of a drink that seemed aflame with fiery and probably spirituous ingredients. Guests were very careful how they partook of it, so stimulating it seemed.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
Scotch barley (No. 204). Pearl barley. Flour. OATMEAL (No. 572). Bread. Raspings. Pease (No. 218). Beans. Rice (No. 321*). Vermicelli. Macaroni (No. 513). Isinglass. Potato mucilage (No. 448). Mushrooms[91-*] (No. 439). Champignons. Parsnips (No. 213). Carrots (No. 212). Beet-roots. Turnips (No. 208). Garlic. Shallots, (No. 402.) Onions.[91-+] Leeks. Cucumber.[92-*] Celery (No. 214). CELERY SEED.[92-+] Cress-seed,[92-+] (No. 397). Parsley,[92-++] (N.B. to No. 261.) Common thyme.[92-++] Lemon thyme.[92-++] Orange thyme.[92-++] Knotted marjorum[92-++] (No. 417). Sage.[92-++] Mint (No. 398). Winter savoury.[92-++] Sweet basil[92-++] (No. 397). Bay leaves. Tomata. Tarragon (No. 396). Chervil. Burnet (No. 399). ALLSPICE[92-§] (No. 412). Cinnamon[92-§] (No. 416*). Ginger[92-§] (No. 411). Nutmeg.[92-§] Clove (No. 414). Mace. Black pepper. Lemon-peel (No. 407 & 408.) White pepper.
Sources: The passage is from E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Miss Mapp, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Kitchiner, The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual of 1817, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — navy cloth, grapes stamp.