This is an old Irish tonic - I used to have it especially if I felt run down or had the flu; it's a pick-me-up-after. It used to be given in hospitals and places as a tonic. Up in Gurranebraher, a hospital near Cork, there was a girl there for a year and she wasn't able to stand at all. She was on raw eggs every morning with a drop of sherry in them and stout and milk at eleven or half past and she had her ordinary meals as well. There was a Doctor O'Connell who ordered it for her. Well, she went home fine.
Here's the recipe...
Just a glass or a cup; you wouldn't want a big heap of it. I suppose half and half roughly, half milk and half Guinness with a bit of sugar in it and stir it up. It's supposed to be good for the blood and you can have it every day if you want, just a glass of it like. These are the glasses I use, they're nice old vintage ones.
That's it then. Some of those old things would be better than any of that packet stuff.
And it gives you an appetite too....
