Delicious Milk Lemonade

Pour a pint of boiing water on to six ounces of loaf sugar, add a quarter of a pint of lemon juice, and half the quantity of good sherry wine. Then add three quarters of a pint of cold milk, and strain the whole to make it nice and clear. Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book, by Catherine Beecher, page 190, New York: Harper 1850-1846