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the flowing bowl

than bad brandy, and that is bad .soda-water.

Avoid the cheap . stuff with the little glass

stoppers, as you would the tipstaff.

Brandy Daisy,

Put into a large tumbler the juice of a small

lemon, half a tablespoonful of sifted sugar, and

dissolve with one squirt of aerated water from a

syphon. Add a liqueur-glass of yellow chartreuse,

nearly fill the glass with crushed ice, and add one

wine-glassful of old brandy. Stir well and strain.

BuWs Milk

A large tumbler.

One teaspoonful of sifted

sugar, half a pint of milk, one-third of a wine-

glassful of old rum, one wine-glassful of old brandy.

Add ice, shake, strain into another glass, and dust

with cinnamon and nutmeg.

yulap^ or yulep.

Behold this cordial Julap here.

That flames and dances in his crystal bounds,

Vvith spirits ofbalm and fragrant syrups mixt.

Although the mint julep is compounded and

used prmcipajly in the continent of America

the original "julap " is a Persian word, signifying

a sweet potion. John Quincey, the author of a

dictionary on Physic, describes julap as "an

extemporaneous form of medicine, made of

simple and compound water, sweetened, and

serves for a vehicle to other forms not so con

venient to take alone."