1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

"APPLE SASS" 177 and the root of the rhatany. In fact, genuine port can be so closely imitated as to deceive many a good judge j and it really seems wonder ful that the British farmer does not go in for making port wine, with apples so plentiful and cheap, and beet, mangels, and elderberries so easy to cultivate. In fact, given the time, and the materials, I am convinced that I could pro duce an excellent '98 wine for laying down, for hospital purposes, public rejoicings, or iniladt's boudoir. Cider, like all other useful drinks, can be, and is, imitated; and Bands of Hope and other well-meaning but misguided associations are chiefly responsible for this. What is known at Sunday - school treats and Salvation Army marriage-feasts as " non-alcoholic cider " has been found, on analysis, to be " a water solution of sugar and citric acid, flavoured with apple essence." It's the flavouring as does it. "Harvest cider," as home-made for the "hands," is dreadful stuff, and absolutely unfit for human consumption. Apples which have fallen of themselves, or been blown off the trees, " windfalls," are left on the ground to rot, and be eaten of slugs and wasps; and are then shovelled into the cider-mill, together with leaves, stalks, slugs, wasps, dirt of all sorts, spiders, ear-wigs, wire-worms, " Daddy Long- legs "-es, and—other things; the whole being converted into a species of "hell-broth," which would have done credit to the best efforts of the witches in Macbeth^ when properly mixed. For a long time the Germans held aloof from

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