Monologue

For Cold Water Monologue from Love in a Wood

From Love in a Wood by William Wycherley

any · comedic · 1:46 min

Keep a large bottle of cold water with half a lemon over the top, in the refrigerator. By refilling when necessary, cold drinking water is always ready. In case of emergency, water may be cooled by placing it in a tin vessel covered with a coarse wet cloth where a breeze blowing on it will cause it to cool, by evaporation. CLARET CUP No. 1 quart claret 1 cupful sugar rind of cucumber 1 liqueur glass brandy 1 liqueur glass curacoa Mix all together, let stand thirty minutes, remove cucumber rind and add ice. CLARET CUP No. ¾ cupful seedless raisins 1 quart cold water 2 cupfuls sugar 1 pint claret 2 quarts Apollinaris 1 4-in. stick of cinnamon 1 cupful lemon juice 1¾ cupfuls orange juice sliced fruits Simmer the raisins in the water thirty minutes. Strain, add cinnamon broken in small pieces, sugar, and half the lemon juice. Boil all together for five minutes. Then add orange and remainder of lemon juice, strain and let become ice cold. Put in the punch bowl a block of ice, pour the claret over it, then the mixture and then just before serving, the Apollinaris. Put in small slices of fruits. This is for a company of twenty five.

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