It seems only right to start this new blog for The Copper Pot by having a drink to wish it luck. After all, any respectable Georgian dinner party would feature a lengthy round of toasts. This is an intriguing recipe that I found in my copy of ‘English 18th century brewing & wine-making’. Annoyingly this book doesn't provide any sources for its collection of recipes, so I had to search around to find an origin for it. After quite a bit of searching, the earliest published vers