The Flowing Bowl / A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences

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A lighthearted yet informative miscellany about alcoholic beverages across eras, combining historical anecdotes, practical recipes, brewing notes, and reflections on drinking habits. Chapters examine changing attitudes toward drink, recount comic and alarming episodes of excess, and offer traditional and inventive preparations for wines, ales, and mixed drinks. Practical discussion of brewing and ale-making practices sits alongside culinary tips and tavern reminiscences, while wry commentary underscores moderation and conviviality. The work alternates instruction and entertainment so readers encounter both technical detail about fermentation and service and anecdotally driven portraits of social customs surrounding drink.

CHAPTER XI STRANGE SWALLOWS

“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 — Sacred beverage of the mild Hindu — Chi Chi — Kafta, an Arabian delight — Friends as whisky agents — Effervescent Glenlivet — The peat-reek — American bar-keeper and his best customer — “Like swallerin’ a circ’lar saw and pullin’ it up again” — Castor-oil anecdote — “Haste to the wedding!”

We will now proceed to consider certain weird potations, some of which I have personally tested, others of which not all the wealth of Golconda, Peru, and Throgmorton Street would induce me to sample of my own accord, and all of which bring more or less trouble in their wake.