negus

viinitoti A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water.
1857, (w), (w), Volume the Second, page 177 (ISBN 1857150570)

And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

Esther began … to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.