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Loving-cup is strictly observed. The guests are only
supposed to take one draught from it as it passes j but,
in No. 110 of the
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Quarterly Review/ a writer says,
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Yet it chanced, not long since at the Temple, that,
though the number present fell short of seventy,
thirty-six quarts of the liquor were consumed.-"
Julep, derived from the Persian word Julap (a sweet-
ened draught), is a beverage spoken of by John Quineey,
the physician, who died in 1723, and also mentioned
by Milton in the lines—
. . . . . ^Behold this cordial Julep here,
That foams and dances in Ms crystal Ibounds,
With spirits of "balm and fragrant syrups mix
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This drink is now made by pounding ice and white
sugar together, and adding to it a wine-glass of brandy,
half a wine-glass of rum, and a piece of the outer rind
of a lemon j these ingredients are shaken violently,
and two or three sprigs of fresh mint are stuck in
the glass; it is then usually imbibed through a straw,
or stick of maccaroni.
One of the oldest of winter beverages, and an especial
favourite, both in ancient and modem times, in our Uni-
versities, is
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Bishop/
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also known on the Continent
under the somewhat similar name of Bisehof. This,
according to Swift, is composed of
^Mne oranges,
Well roasted, with sugar and wine Inft cup,
They'll make a iweet Bishop when gentlefolks sup."
This recipe is giFea
verbatim
in
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Oxford Night-caps.
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