1939 The Gentleman's Companion volume II Beeing an Exotic Drinking Book

THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK

Indies, during our editorial days with Doubleday, Doran

Company

magazines. T ake rYz jiggers dark rum, turn into a collins glass with

large lumps of ice, squeeze

lime in and add the crushed lime itself;

now comes r tsp sugar, and fill up with ginger ale of some decent sort,

or better still with stone bottle ginger beer. It is a satisfying cooler. By

using

dark rum and

Carta de Oro

Bacardi the drink will suit

feminine Jamaicaphobes.

NOW, GENTLEMEN, at LONGLAST ARE EIGHT or so MINT JuLEP

CEREMONIES-BEING

AR1ous ADAPTATIONS of this PEERLESS A:MERI–

CAN CoNCEPTION from ALL PARTS of the WoRLD where IT Is PROPERLY

REVERED

Right from the meaning of the word Juleps have been a spill-and–

pelt of contradiction and disagreement. . . . The very name itself

never was midwifed on any honeysuckle-bowered southern balcony,

but comes from the Persian

gulab,

or Arab

julab:

meaningLrose water.

. . . No sane Kentucky planter, in full possession of his faculties will

yield an inch to any Marylander when it comes to admitting rye is

superior to bourbon in a Julep, when actually, a Julep is international

and has been international for years-just as the matters of radio and

flying are international. It is a drink composed of whisky or brandy

-and, of

lat~rum;

sweetened, iced, and flavoured with aromatic

leaves of the

mentha

family.

So before the shooting starts let's explain right here and now that

there's no more chance of getting the various Julep schools to agree on

fabrication of this most delectable of drinks, than we have of getting

a proud Atlanta great-grandmother to concede General Sherman a

nice, gentle, well-meaning, big boy.

First of all there is the silver cup versus the glass school; the chilled

glass versus room-temperature school; the slightly bruised mint versus

the all-bruised school; the rye versus the bourbon school· the fruit

garnish versus the plain school.

Feuds have begun because someone breathed the possibility that

city water would make a Julep as well as water dipped from a fern-

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