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White-Wine Negus

Extract the juice from the peel of a lemon by rubbing loaf sugar upon it, or cut the peel of a lemon very thin and pound it in a mortar; cut two lemons into thin slices, add four glassfuls of calf's foot jelly in a liquid state, and small quantities of cinnamon, mace, cloves, and all spice. Put the whole into a jug, pour one quart of boiling water upon it, cover the jug closely let it stand a quarter of an hour, and then add a bottle of boiling white wine; grate half a nutmeg into it, stir all well together, and sweeten to taste.