1922 Old Time Recipes Liquors Shrubs(4th edition) by Helen S Wright

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INTRODUCTION

The idea of compiling this little volume occurred to me while on a visit to some friends at their summer home in a quaint New England village. The little town had once been a thriving seaport, but now con- sisted of hardly more than a dozen old- fashioned Colonial houses facing each other along one broad, well-kept street. A few blind lanes led to less pretentious homes; and still farther back farmhouses dotted the landscape and broke the dead line of the horizon. For peace, contentment, and quiet seren- ity of life, this little village might have been Arcadia; the surrounding country, the land of Beulah. The ladies of the Great Houses, as the 11

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