1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

CHAPTER XIV

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT

The Long Drink—Cremome Gardens—Hatfield—Assorted cock tails—Brandy-and-Soda—Otherwise Stone Fence Bull s milk—A burglar's brew—More cocktails—A "swizzle L'Amour Pousaee—A corpse reviver—A golden slipper A heap of comfort. Our grandfathers knew not the Long Drink ; the chief reason for this fact being that aerated water, and consequently large tumblers, had not been invented. And soda-water—one of the most ineffectual restoratives I know—was originally employed, under its pet name "sober water," as a pick-me-up. The Long Drink came in, I fancy, with Cremorne. At primaeval Vauxhall men still refreshed themselves with glasses of alleged sherry, and with rummers of brandy-and- water—a flat, stale, and unprofitable potion, which nobody who is in complete possession of his faculties thinks of imbibing nowadays. Let us now run over a few recipes which require large tumblers to hold the drinks. And we will commence with " cobblers," those seduc tive warm-weather importations from the United States.