1871 The Gentleman's Table Guide by E Ricket and C Thomas

The Gentleman's Table Guide.

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No. 62. MINT JULEP. (captain mahrtat.)

gUT into a tumbler about a dozen sprigs ^ of young mint, upon them put a table- spoonful of white pounded sugar, and equal proportions of peach and cognac brandy, so as to fill one-third or, perhaps, a little less ; then take rasped or pounded ice and fill up the tumbler; epicures rub the lips of the tumbler with a piece of lemon or pineapple, and the tumbler itself is very often encrusted outside with stalactites of ice. As the ice melts you drink or draw through 2 straws. The " Virginians" says Captain Marryat claims the merit of having invented this superb compound, but, from a passage in the "Comus" of Milton, he claims it for his own country. No. 63.-MINT JULEP, a soda-water glass. 1 tablespoonful of powdered sugar or candy, 1 wineglass of water; mix well, and dissolve the sugar ; take 3 or 4 tender sprigs of young mint, and press them well in the sugar candy and water, until the flavour of the mint is extracted; add 1 wineglass of cognac brandy, fill the glass up with rasped or shaved ice, then draw the mint and ' insert it in the ice, with the stems downwards,' so that the leaves will be above in the shape of a bouquet; arrange a few raspberries or straw-