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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
mented radishes mixed
with spirits
of turpentine. One January
2
years
back we took
MARMION
in a howling no'theaster along with the,
then, 4 year bride, a companion, and an insane steward, and pointed
her down to Key West to get some receipts from Hemingway for the
cookery book. We fished the Gulf Stream by day, and ate and drank
and talked half the night. Even by the second day we were withering
slightly on vine, and along with raw conch salad, or "souse," listed in
Volume I,
we got Hemingway's other picker-upper, and liked it.
Take a tall thin water tumbler and fill it with finely cracked ice.
Lace this broken debris with 4 good purple splashes of Angostura,
add the juice and crushed peel of
I
green lime, and
fill
glass almost
full
with
Holland gin.... No sugar, no fancying. It's strong,
it's
bitter-but so is English ale strong and bitter, in many cases. We
don't add sugar to ale, and we don't need sugar in a Death in the Gulf
Stream-or at least not more than
I
tsp. Its tartness and its bitterness
are
its
chief charm. It is reviving and refreshing; cools the blood and
inspires renewed interest in food, companions and life.
FRITZ-FREDERICK ABILDGAARD
&
ALONE-in-the-CAR–
IBBEAN-FENGER'S
DOMINICA
TOPET
When Fritz was sailing his sliver-size canoe
YA.CKABOO
and
making his
50
and
60
mile open water ocean hops from Trinidad up
to the Virgin Islands, he annexed this liquid threat to his log book;
and double checked during the cruise of
DIABLESSE
several years
later. "This drink,"
Fritz
shouted with his fanatical look, which is a
co?1bination of a revivalist preacher and a cloven hoofed satyr, "is a
dnnk for those of not too Scotch descent and detailed instructions
b
'
I
may e deciphered on Page
2
43 of
The Cruise
of
the Diablesse
(Adv·)·
So to fabricate 4
T
opets:
"Ta~e
5 ponies of any good medium dark rum, and in this soak
the
s~iral
.of a sizeable green lime, muddling ilbout to extract the
~s~ential
01
ls. _Now add an equal pax:t of cold water, and the strained
JUlCe of the lm_1e. Next put
Yz
tsp
gomme
syrup in each glass. Now
carefully flow
1Il
the lime-rum mix, being careful to float it on so it
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