Name: Spaekling Moselle Cup
Ingredients: 2 bottles Schloss Eheinhausen; 1 bottle dry sparkling Moselle; 2 lemons, sliced; 4 bottles soda water; 2 pounds ice; 10-12 saccharin tabloids

Spaekling Moselle Cup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Dissolve saccharin tablets in a little boiling water and let cool.

Make the cocktail

In a large pitcher, combine the wines, lemon slices, soda water, and ice.
Add the cooled saccharin solution to the mixture and stir gently.

Serve

Serve chilled at tennis parties.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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: Provides intense sweetness without sugar, sweetening the drink in place of sugar.
Lemons: Adds acidity and citrus aroma that brighten the sweet wine and soda.
Dry sparkling moselle: Supplies the wine base and carbonation, giving the drink its body and fizz.

“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.