The flowing bowl : a treatise on drinks of all kinds and of all periods, interspersed with sundry anecdotes and reminiscences / by Edward Spencer ("Nathaniel Gubbins").

  • Spencer, Edward, 1844-1910.
Date:
1925
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Credit: The flowing bowl : a treatise on drinks of all kinds and of all periods, interspersed with sundry anecdotes and reminiscences / by Edward Spencer ("Nathaniel Gubbins"). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when it is about to be sealed up will greatly improve the wine.” Then what sort of a temperance drink can Elderberry Punch be ? No more on that head, in the name of St. Wilfrid. I also read, in the work of reference from which I am quoting, under the same heading, “ Temperance Drinks,’’ that :— “Many of the British wines, mixed with an equal quantity of water, with a little ice, make very cool and refreshing drinks.” Very, very likely. But can there be wine without fermen- tation ? And are the total abstainers, not content with drinking alcoholic gingerade and stone finger-beer, getting the wedge in still further, orbid it ! Cold Spring-water is a most excellent drink, and according to so great an authority as Sir Henry Thompson, not only the cheapest drink in the world but the best. For my own poor part I prefer milk- punch. And as the Scotchman said, I have “tried baith.”