The Archive · 1924

Oxford Cup

Toast 3 slices of bread, and put them into a jug with the strained juice of 2 lemons. Rub 1 of. sugar on to the rind of a lemon, pound it, and put into the jug, add the thinly pured rind of another lemon, 1 pint of sherry, 12 pints good ale, and grated nutmeg to taste, and if liked 2 little more sugar, let it all stand for 18 hours, then strain and serve. inch was felt wset severely, they Ueirs. dependent en the fariers for thee daily bread.

"rare is 9 meat cent macker," writes one Luly from Me yarness, "not te be got for any evenly; such ax have any for sale fave Keeping it, in hopes of getting, a higher price at Us Goats score 28, dd, a "bare "AVE It is (she writes to ith those in thy country wh EU! yood pats."

No Ten in Cromarty yomarty was ina hopeless plight; Lady Mackenzie in one of her letters declares—"There ix not fa pound of tea in the town, and the best flour to be hud is lust year's, fan all very: musty; there are no apples or onions, but we procured few from Edinboro'."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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