1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

MIXED DRINKS.

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bank of the Charente is the Grande Champagne,and radiating beyond it on the Petite Champagne, the Premiers Bois, and the Seconds Bois. The Grande Champagne is the source of the finest brandy anywhere produced. The quantity of brandy exported from Tonnay, Charente, varies annually from 6,000,000 to over 9,000,000 gallons. One year it was valued at over $9,000,000. Storage in oak casks gives it a delicate golden hue caused by incidentally taking tannin from the oak, but the deeper brown brandy is colored with caramel. It is ventilated two years, and mellows and develops aroma the longer it is kept. It is popular as a medicinal stimulant,and is used for diarrhoea,spasms, etc. Much of the spirit that passes for brandy is beet root or gl'ain" whisky colored and aromatised with the Cognac-flavored oenathic ether or Hungarian oil. The average proportion of alcohol in brandy ranges from forty-eight to fifty-four per cent. The name brandy is now given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that which is distilled from cider and from peaches. The brandies most used are Hennessey, Otard, Martel, and Claverie. British brandy is a common kind distilled in Eng-