Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In employing them to cool a bottle of champagne, place it to the neck in a vessel of the coldest pump water that can be procured; sprinkle about four ounces of either of the above powders upon the shoulder of the bottle, so as, gra- dually dissolving, to fall or run down its sides; as the salt dissolves, the bottle should be gently turned in the mixture, and kept in it about twenty minutes, or half an hour. Artificial ice, made by the aid of an air-pump and other apparatus, has been found too expensive, and is rarely resorted to in India. Upon its first introduction into Bengal, the novelty proved very attractive, and a rich and luxurious native, it is said, expended 700/. in the single article of ice, at an entertainment given to an European party. A decanter of wine or water may be readily cooled by folding round it a wet cloth, and placing it in a current of air. In the East Indies, wine is kept cool at table by fancifully arranging wet cloths round the necks of the bottles, over which is a kind of petticoat. Port, claret, and burgundy, are characteristically attired in crimson, with white flounces; while sherry and madeira appear in bridal costume. A bottle of iced water, and bottled porter iced, are summer luxuries. To make good negus, use good wine, and not, as some persons think, any inferior kind in any condition. The pipe wine measure varies according to the description of wine. The pipe of port contains 138 gallons, of sherry 130, of Lisbon and Bucellas 140, of Madeira 110, and of Vidonia 120. The pipe of port, it should be observed, is seldom accurately 130 gallons, and it is not unusual to charge what the vessel actually contains. In the vast cellars of the London Docks, upwards of 65,000 pipes of wine and spirits can be stowed; and, in the vaults of the West India Doeks, 35,158 pipes of rum and Madeira wine have been deposited at one time.
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