Cocktails/Brews Tewahdiddle

tewahdiddle. (no. 467.)
(from The Cook's Oracle: And Housekeeper's Manual, by William Kitchiner, 1822)

Ingredients:

1 pint of table beer, or ale​

1 tbsp. brandy​

1 tsp. brown sugar, or clarified syrup​

grated nutmeg or ginger may be added​

a roll of very thin-cut lemon-peel​

Instructions:

A pint of table beer (or ale, if you intend it for a supplement to your "night cap"), a table-spoonful of brandy, and a tea-spoonful of brown sugar, or clarified syrup (No. 475); a little grated nutmeg or ginger may be added, and a roll of very thin-cut lemon-peel.​

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Obs. - Before our readers make any remarks on this composition, we beg of them to taste it: if the materials are good, and their palate vibrates in unison with our own, they will find it one of the pleasantest beverages they ever put to their lips; and, as Lord Ruthven says, "this is a right gossip's cup that far exceeds all the ale that ever Mother Bunch made in her life-time." See his Lordship's Experiments in Cookery, &c. 18mo. London, 1654, p. 215.​