drinks of the world
by james mew
Author: james mew
Cooking, Food & Wine » Drinks & Beverages
Added by: Bedii Oz (Suf...
Drinks of the World contains amazing recipes, ideas and tips for preparing cocktails for bartenders. The book was published for the first time in 1837 but it does not seem old and the tips given here may be very useful for the modern lovers of cocktails. Besides, some of the recipes got lost or a bit forgotten so the readers would be very excited to rediscover them. The book is a must have for bartenders and those who like preparing and drinking cocktails from time to time.
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...prevent their drinking at home ; their DRINKS. 47 benefactors provided well for that, as one instance will show. Ethelwold allowed the Monastery of Abingdon a great bowl, from which the drinking vessels of the brothers were filled twice a day. At Christmas, Eas- ter, Pentecost, the Nativity and Assumption of the Virgin, on the festivals of Saints Peter and Paul, and all the other saints, they were to have wine, as well as mead, twice a day ; and taking the number of Saints in the Anglo-Saxon Calendar, it must have gone hard with them, if this was not almost an every-day occur- rence. The Northern nations did not lose their love of drink as time rolled on, as we may find in the pages of Olaus Magnus. They drank wine, but owing to the extreme cold it was not of native production, but imported. In this illustration we see the vessel that has brought it, and the bush outside, denoting that it was to be sold. They got it from Spain, Italy, France, 48 DRINKS. and Germany, but he says that...
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