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GLOSSARY OF LIQUEURS
Elixir D'Anvers. A sweet liqueur, yellow in colour with taste
similar to yellow Chartreuse.
Elixir de Rotterdam. A Dutch liqueur.
Forbidden Fruit. An American liqueur. The flavour is a mixture
of grapefruit and orange. Colour, a red flame. Sweet with
a bitter after taste. High alcoholic strength.
Fraise de Bois. A French liqueur,flavoured with wild strawberries.
Fraisia. A red French liqueur, flavoured with strawberries.
Fior d'AIpe. A liqueur flavoured with the flowers and herbs
collected from the slopes of the .\lps. It is highly sweetened
so that the sugar readily forms crystals in the bottle.
Giayva. A liqueur similar to Drambuie.
Glen Mist. A liqueur similar to Drambuie, but a mixture of Scotch
and Irish Whiskies.
Goldwasser (Danzig). A colourless sweet liqueur with flakes of
gold, flavoured with aniseed and orange. The original was
made by der Lechs in 1598.
Grand Cumberland. An Australian liqueur, one of the main
ingredients being Passion fruit.
Grande Liqueur. A liqueur similar to Chartreuse, made in France
in two colours, green and yellow, with a Chartreuse flavour.
Grand Marnier. A French brandy liqueur, golden brown in colour
with the flavour of orange.
Guignolet. A French Cherry Brandy liqueur distilled at Angers.
Half Om Half. Sweet Dutch liqueur composed of Curacao and
highly rectified spirit. Brown red in colour.
Izzara. Yellow and green. Comes from Basque country.
Kummel. One of the most popular of all liqueurs with definite
digestive properties. It has been made in Holland since 1575, but
Kummel from Riga, and Gilka Kummel from Berhn, used to
be even more universally popular than the Dutch Kummel.
Kummel has in its basis some highly distilled or almost neutral
spirit, sometimes distilled from grain, sometimes from potatoes
rarely if ever from wine. It is flavoured with caraway seeds
and cumin, to which it owes its digestive qualities. It is more
or less sweetened, according to the formulae used for different
brands, but is always pure white.
Liqueur D'Or. A Golden sweet French liqueur with flakes of gold.
Liqueur Jaune. A French yellow liqueur somewhat similar to
yellow Chartreuse.
Liqueur Verte. A French liqueur, somewhat similar to Green
Chartreuse.
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