The flowing bowl : a treatise on drinks of all kinds and of all periods, interspersed with sundry anecdotes and reminiscences / by Edward Spencer ("Nathaniel Gubbins").

  • Edward Spencer Mott
Date:
1925
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Credit: The flowing bowl : a treatise on drinks of all kinds and of all periods, interspersed with sundry anecdotes and reminiscences / by Edward Spencer ("Nathaniel Gubbins"). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    —The dice in the tumbler—Nomenclature at “The Olde Cheshyre Cheese ”—“Rack”—“Cork” . • 83-90 CHAPTER IX CUPS WHICH CHEER Claret combinations—Not too much noyeau—A treat for school- boys—The properties of borage—“ Away with melancholy ” —Salmon's Household Companion — Balm for vapours— Crimean cup—An elaborate and far-reaching compound— Orgeat-—A race-day cup—“ Should auld acquaintance be forgot?”—Sparkling Isabella—Rochester’s delight—Free- mason’s relish — Porter cup — Dainty drink for a tennis- party , 91-ico CHAPTER X PUNCH Derivation of the word questioned—Not an Asiatic drink—“ Pale- punts ”—No relation to pale punters—Properties of rum— Toddy as a tonic—Irish punch—Glasgie ditto—O’er muckle cauld watter—One to seven—Hech sirs !—Classical sherbet —Virtues of the feet of calves—West India dry gripes— Make your own punch—No deputy allowed—-Attraction of capillaire — Gin punch — Eight recipes for milk-punch— University heatt-cheerers . » , , Pages 101-114 CHAPTER XI STRANGE SWALLOWS 44 Wormwood!”—The little green fairy—All right when you know it, but —The hour of absinthe—Awful effects— Marie Corelli—St. John the Divine—Arrack and bhang not to be encouraged—Plain water—The original intoxicant—