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THE FLOWING BOWL
is also made from cherries, in another place.
But the Black Forest cherry-water requires a
little treatment to render it palatable.
Put a little in a saucer ; take a lump of sugar, set
fire to it, and replace it in the saucer, so that the
rest of the liquid may be set ablaze. When the
flame is burnt out and the sugar melted, the liqueur
is fit to drink.
Noyeau
is made from white brandy and apricot-kernels,
and is the sweetest,as well as the most pernicious
of all liqueurs. I do not know how many glasses
it would take to kill an ordinary man, but most
people know that noyeau contains hydrocyanic
acid of which none but those tired of the world
would care to drink too much.
Parfait Amour
"What's in a name?" This is simply bad
orange-bitters, and there is neither love nor
perfection in it. But they say that in dear old
England, in the olden time, before oranges could
be bought at three-halfpence per dozen, it was
customary for a lover, on New Year s Day, to
present his sweetheart with an orange stuck all
over with cloves, as an emblem of Perfect Love.
The sweetheart of to-day prefers a bangle, or a
bicycle.
One more liqueur.
Maraschino.
This is a bitter-sweet liqueur made at Zara
from the kernel of the Marasca cherry, or gean