The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
August 11th : CHAMPAGNE A LA MINUTE
If you are about to drink sharp cider, let me advise you to put half a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, and a dessert-spoonful of finely powdered sugar at the bottom of your glass; have the cider poured on this, and you will allow that it is a very pleasant, though humble, imitation of champagne.