1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

196 THE FLOWING BOWL is also made from cherries, in another place. But the Black Forest cherry-water requires a little treatment to render it palatable. Put a little in a saucer ; take a lump of sugar, set fire to it, and replace it in the saucer, so that the rest of the liquid may be set ablaze. When the flame is burnt out and the sugar melted, the liqueur is fit to drink. Noyeau is made from white brandy and apricot-kernels, and is the sweetest,as well as the most pernicious of all liqueurs. I do not know how many glasses it would take to kill an ordinary man, but most people know that noyeau contains hydrocyanic acid of which none but those tired of the world would care to drink too much. Parfait Amour "What's in a name?" This is simply bad orange-bitters, and there is neither love nor perfection in it. But they say that in dear old England, in the olden time, before oranges could be bought at three-halfpence per dozen, it was customary for a lover, on New Year s Day, to present his sweetheart with an orange stuck all over with cloves, as an emblem of Perfect Love. The sweetheart of to-day prefers a bangle, or a bicycle. One more liqueur. Maraschino. This is a bitter-sweet liqueur made at Zara from the kernel of the Marasca cherry, or gean