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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
WORDS to the LIQUID WISE No. VIII, on the SPECIES of
ALE for MULLING
In all receipts calling for heated, mulled, or otherwise spiced ale,
again we recommend English Bass, or any English Musty Ale, most
heartily in preference to our present list of domestic products, and in
spite of the cost made necessary by our ridiculously high tariff duties
on products which we never have made here, and probably couldn't
make as well
if
we did try.
ONE, now, BASED on APPLEJACK-which Is AMERICA'S TERM
for APPLE BRANDY,
&
CALLED the JERSEY LIGHTHOUSE
It is rather unfortunate that our prohibition era through its raw
applejack and Jersey Lightning, managed
comple~ely
to deflect Ameri–
can taste against this fine spirit. Decently aged-in-wood applejack is a
fine thing, just as French
Calvados-a
super.fine apple brandy from
Normandy and the orchards of Ausse and Bessin-is a lovely stuff, as
fine in its way as any cognac, especially the.brand marketed in the
fl.ask bearing an apple, on a leafy branch in bas relie£
We met the Jersey Lighthouse sitting in the back room of a small
New Jersey inn one horrid winter night, with William Faulkner,
Tony Sarg's puppet maker Bil Baird, and
Eric-Midget Magellans
and
Blow the Man
Down-Devine, our sailing mate on
MARMION.
. . . Into a tumbler place
2
lumps of sugar, a dash or
2
of Angostura.•
3 or 4 cloves, a spiral of lemon peel. Onto this pour
2
jiggers of ancient
applejack, fill with boiling water, float on
I
tbsp applejack at the last
and serve blazing merrily. Those of us who read Bill Faulkner's
Light
in August
renamed the drink
Light in February.
A HOT HELPER FOUNDED upon BEER from DENMARK
&
CALLED the CoPENHAGEN-PRoNOUNCED as NEAR as WE CAN Do IT
'
"KERN-HABEN"-BEER TODDY
It
is a fine one to use after winter sports, in an Alpine ski-camp, any–
where like that. Take
I
average bottle of good Danish or Bavarian
dark beer, beat
I
to
2
egg yolks well with
I
tbsp of brown sugar; and
after heating beer in a saucepan put beaten eggs into the mug, turn
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