Moselle Cup
Ingredients
Directions
Make the sweetener
Dissolve saccharin tablets in boiling water.
Assemble the cup
In a large pitcher, combine sparkling Burgundy, Schloss Eheinhausen, cucumber slice, and soda water.
Once cold, add the dissolved saccharin mixture.
Break ice into small pieces and add to the pitcher.
Serve chilled.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Saccharin tablets
- Provide the sweetness, replacing sugar in the drink.
- Sparkling burgundy
- Supplies the main wine flavor and the sparkle of the drink.
- Schloss eheinhausen
- Adds wine body and flavor to the blend.
- Soda water
- Adds carbonation and dilutes the wine for a lighter drink.
The step that matters
Add the saccharin mixture only once it is cold. Adding the sweetener while the liquid is still warm can cause the sparkling wine and soda to lose carbonation quickly. Chilling first keeps the drink lively and lets the sweetness taste balanced.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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