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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    reign remedy for intoxication from wine, and even to have the power of preventing it; for, we are assured that by eat- ing a certain quantity of cabbage before dinner, we may drink wine ad libitum, without experiencing inconve- nience. Brandy has been found a perfect antidote to drunken- ness from beer. A man, upon whom the experiment was inadvertently made in the south of France, described him- self after the intoxication had left him, as “ awakened from a long and painful dream.” This curious remedy has since been tried, and always with success; and a French physician has verified it. Who does not recollect a first bottle of wine, unequalled by its successors! We remember ordering a bottle of Gra ve at the Tete-de-Bceuf, at Abbeville, which was marked in the carte at three francs. It came—people may talk of Rndesheim, Burgundy, and Hermitage, and all the wines that ever the Rhone or the Rhine produced, but never was their wine like that bottle of Grave. We drank it slowly, and lingered over the last glass, as if we had a presentiment that we should never meet with its like again. When it was done, quite done, we ordered another bottle. But no— it was not the same wine. We sent it away, and in vain; —and another—there was no more of it to be had. Flock and soda-water make one of the most delicious succedanea to an excess of wine:— Get very drunk ; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall sec what then,— JRing for your valet, bid him quickly bring Some hock and soda-water, then you'll know A pleasure worthy Xerxes the great king; For not the best sherbet sublimed with snow, Nor the first sparkle of the desert spring, Nor burgundy in all its sunset glow, Alter long travel, ennui, love, or slaughter, Vie with that draught of hock and soda-water.—Byron. Onion soup is thought highly restorative by the French. It is considered peculiarly grateful, and gently stimulating to the stomach after hard-drinking or night-watcliing, and holds among soups the place that soda-water, Champagne, or ginger-beer, docs among liquors.
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