1872 The Gentleman's Table Guide (2nd edition)

The Gentleman's Table Guide. 37

No. 62. MINT JULEP. (captain MAIiEYAT.) g^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 ofthe tumbler with a piece of lemon or pineapple, and the tumbler itselfis very often encrusted outside with stalactites of ice. As the ice melts you drink or draw through 2 straws. The"Virginians" says Captain Mavryat 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 tablcspoonful 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 stravv- F