1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

90 DRINKS A LA MODE The most famous brandy is distilled at Cognac, in France, from the choicest wines. The best brandy is made from the grape called folk blanche. Whisky. Whisky is a spirit made by distillation from grain, roots, and other materials, the best being pro- duced from barley after it has been malted. Gin is an alcoholic drink distilled from malt or from unmalted barley or other grain, and after- wards rectified and flavoured. Schiedam or Hollands, the drink of the Dutch, is made by using juniper berries to flavour the spirit made from unmalted Riga rye in Holland, and it is a rich, mellow, soft spirit. Rum. Rum is chiefly made in the West Indies, and is manufactured from the distillation of the fer- mented skimmings of the sugar boilers, with the strainings and washings of the sugar works, add- ing some raw cane-juice to impart the flavour. If pure it is a very wholesome spirit. The best comes from Jamaica and Santa Cruz. The Sunshine rum sold by Burnett and Co. is a first-rate kind. Gin.

Arrack

is made from a juice which exudes from the cocoa-nut tree. There is an inferior kind made