Drinks of the World

“J’y ai songé comme un autre, et je suis tenté de mettre l’appétence des liqueurs fermentées, qui n’est pas connue des animaux, à côté de l’inquiétude de l’avenir, qui leur est...

The Egyptians had several kinds of wine, even as early as the fourth dynasty (above 6000 years ago, according to Mariette), when four kinds of wine, at least, were known. Pliny...

“Full oft have promis’d, with beer drunken, Over _the_ ale cup, sons of conflict, that they in _the_ beer-hall would await Grendel’s warfare with terrors of edges: then was this...

Of the many wines produced at Algiers, the best is probably the white wine of _Mascara_, situated on a slope of the plane of Egbris, 1,800 feet above the sea level. The Arabic n...

“Among the white wines of the Gironde which obtained the higher class reward, two require to be especially mentioned. One, the renowned Château d’Yquem of the Marquis de Lur Sal...

Of white Ports the best are _Muscatel de Jesus_ (the testimony to religious influence in this and the _Lacryma Christi_ is extremely touching), considered the prince of all, the...

Although the Still-room was serviceable for medicinal purposes, yet, as we have seen, there were many comforting drinks made, including _Vsquebath, or Irish aqua vitæ_ (a recipe...

The poetry is very far from bad, and so was the liquor. It was a composition of gin, soda water, lemon, and sugar. John was abbreviated to gin and Collins to sling.

The word liqueur appears to have had a considerable latitude of signification. We talk now of coffee and liqueur, but according to the French poet Delille, who lived at a time v...

The first _Ratafia_ was called _Eau de Cerises_, or cherry water. The kernels should be added to the juice of the fruit with cinnamon and mace in small quantities. This renders...

Beer is probably a word of German, as ale, signifying the same thing, is of Scandinavian origin. But the source of the German word is a moot question of comparative philology. T...

“Then when the Bottel doth grow old, And will good Liquor no longer hold, Out of its side you may take a Clout, Will mend your Shooes when they’r worn out; Else take it, and han...

Delivery, Indian 85,619,000 91,368,000 101,168,000 Ceylon 12,578,000 23,830,000 31,947,000 China 116,870,000 105,668,000 87,652,900 Java 3,133,100 3,862,000 3,280,000 ----------...

“From boist’rous Wine I fled to gentle Tea; For, Calms compose us after Storms at Sea. In vain wou’d Coffee boast an equal Good; The Chrystal Stream transcends the flowing Mud....

“The Herb is gathered every four Months, that is three times a year, and in the manuring of it care is taken to weed it often; for the Country being hot and moist, the Weeds gro...

In Abyssinia coffee appears to have been used as a drink from time immemorial. Abd-Alkader, a learned native of Medina, writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century, give...

In another method of manufacture it is known as Chocolate, which is simply the cocoa bean ground and flavoured with sugar, vanilla, almonds, cinnamon, or what not, according to...

“The approaching completion of the Koumiss is known by a thick froth, which sometimes rises very high, forming on its surface; while the full completion of fermentation is recog...

There are four drinks in Madagascar: _Toak_, made from honey and water; _Araffer_, from a tree called _Sater_, resembling a small cocoa-nut; _Toupare_, from boiled cane, a liqui...

[110] According to Kotzebue, old women chew, as in the South American _chica_—let us hope this cannot be correct—and little girls spit on it to thin the paste. Kotzebue’s _New V...