1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

MIXED DRINKS.

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Dutch gins vary, but are purer and mellower liquors than the more highly-flavored British gins. It is fre quently prescribed in diseases of the urinary organs, as the essential oil of .juniper is the most powerful of all diruetics. But the imitation gin, which may easily he detected by taste, is very pernicious and should be excluded. The spurious gin is made by mixing essen tial oils, turpentine, etc., with plain spirits without any redistillation. It is always best to buy good goods from reliable houses and pay market prices in this article as in everything else. Don't'look for"soft snaps." Abrak is an Oriental spirit distilled from "toddy," or the fermented juice of certain palm trees or from rice. ' Sake,the national drink of Japan,is from rice. Potato Brandy is very extensively prepared from the fecula of potatoes in Germany and Russia. It is much used in the arts and for making factitious wines and for fortifying wines. Koumiss,as originally manufactured by the Tartars, is distilled from fermented milk of mares,and furnishes the only example of spirit drawn from animal sources— a great food and drink in Russia. Maraschino originated with the Italians. For