1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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The matters employed in the adulteration are very many. Corianders, crushed almond cake, angelica root powdered, liquorice, cardamoms, cassia, cinnamon, grains of paradise, and cayenne pepper, and many more substances take the place of the berries of the juniper tree. As these substances frequently produce a cloudy appearance, the liquid is subsequently refined by other adulterants, such as alum, sulphate of zinc, and acetate of lead. The variety of gin dear to ancient beldams, which is known as Cordial, is more highly sweetened and aro- matized than the ordinary quality. The alcoholic strength of gin as commonly sold ranges from 22 to 48 degrees. The amount of sugar varies between 2 and 9 per cent. Gin is a beneficial diuretic, but the compounds sold under that name are too often detrimental in their name from John Collins, formerly a celebrated waiter in LImmer's old house. The old lines on this drink ran as follows : " My name is John Collins, head waiter at Limmer's, Corner of Conduit Street, Hanover Square. My chief occupation is filling of brimmers For all the young gentlemen frequenters there." The poetry Is very far from bad, and so was the effects. A popular drink called gin-sling takes its

It was a composition of gin, soda water,

liquor.

John was abbreviated to gin and

lemon, and sugar.

Collins to sling. Gin has had many popular names, but why gin