Raspberry Salad (1850-83)

I came across this Raspberry Salad during the last Historical Food Fortnightly challenge and couldn't resist trying it. This one appears in Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery (1883), but I've run across similar 'pour alcohol over fresh fruit' salads in 1850s sources (like this receipt for strawberry, raspberry or currant salads from 1854, or orange/peach/strawberry versions from 1857, or all of the above plus pine-apples from 1850).

I mixed strawberries and raspberries, added some white wine, and found it delightful. With or without the called-for sugar.

Victorian fruit salad is the best fruit salad.