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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    principle) termed solanine passes over in the process, ren- dering the product extremely deleterious; and further, by the preparation which the pulp undergoes to lit it for the still, a certain quantity of hydrocyanic (prussic) acid is developed, thus adding to the pernicious effects of this spirit. Many instances are related of persons becoming con- firmed drunkards from being ordered to drink brandy-and- water instead of wine—formerly a favourite prescription of English physicians. In America, a liquor named cider-brandy is obtained from distillation from cider. A very strong liquid is obtained by allowing cider to be frozen, and then drawing off the fluid portion. But, a far more wholesome liquor than either is the pomona wine, which is prepared by adding one gallon of brandy to six of cider, after it is racked off. Rum is generally valued from its great age, but long keeping is not so requisite to the goodness of all kinds as may be imagined. Rum of a brownish transparent colour, smooth oily taste, strong body and consistence, good age, and well kept, is the best. That of a clear limpid colour, and hot pungent taste, is either too new, or mixed with other spirits. It is customary in some of the West India islands to put sliced pine-apple in puncheons of rum; this gives the spirit the flavour of the fruit, and hence the de- signation, pine-apple rum. Good shrub is delicious: were it fashionable, it would be ranked as a liqueur. It is surprising to observe how little malt whisky is im- ported into England from Scotland, the whole quantity being no more than 347,402 gallons! exceeding, by only 37,714 gallons, the amount annually consumed of that pernicious compound, “ British Brandy.” This discovery will doubtless mortify many who imagined that the Islay or Glenlivet which they drank, was the “ pure malt ” whiskey the dealers announced it to be. The circumstance can be accounted for only by supposing, that the English dealer knowingly purchases the inferior article, and charges his customer the price of the superior one; or that the Scotch
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