1900 Cocktail BOOTHBY'S American Bartender ( 2nd edition )

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Aim to please your patron by studying his tastes. Polite inquiry as to how strangers like their beverages served will never offend.

A dozen different beers are made in Borneo. Mead was made from honey and water fermented. Over a hundred kinds of wine are made in Australia. The best Champagne corks cost seven cents each. Mead is the oldest alcoholic drink mentioned in history. In Sweden an appetizer is made from common fennel. Bacon advised the use ofcider and perry on sea voyages. The Egyptians attributed the invention ofbeer to Osiris. .

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The Assyrians had seventy-two different kinds of wine. Over three hundred different drinks are known as purely American in use. Champagne grapes are little larger than red currants. Catherine de Medicis introduced the use ofliquors in France. Wine skins made of the hides of animals are used in the rural districts of Spain. Hermetically sealed wine flasks have been found in Pompeii. The word brandy is from the Djitch Brandwijn—burnt wine. Port wine is famous for its gout producing properties. Ancient wines were black, red,-straw color, white or tawny brown. Brandy was first used medicinally and miraculous cures were ascribed to its employment. Ecau is double distilled kummel made into a liqueur. seeds. Kummel is com brandysweetened and flavored with coriander and caraway Cater to people with money and overlook dead ones and has beens. * Wines and liquors are expensive luxuries. A man who is broke should not have such luxurious habits.