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Show H The Real Mint Julep THERE is a bar-tender not a thousand miles from here who, last Sunday, -was carrying H about a large disgust with him. The bars H all being closed on Sunday, he had nothing to H do but talk. He had read the formulas of Dr. H Wiley, Representative Jones of Kentucky, Col. H Watlerson, and others, for making mint julep. At H last, looking up from his study of the different H prescriptions, he broke out with, "What do those H northern people know about imint juleps? Dr. H Wiley may be a good commonplace chemist, H Representative Jones is trying to remember what H some southern gentleman has told him, and for- H gotten half of it; Col. Watterson is really a judge H of toddies and Milwaukee beer; but it is pre- H sumptuous for such persons to assume to teach H people how to manufacture a julep. H The julep is a New Orleans invention, and H dates back to the anti-bellum days, when southern H gentlemen devoted their lives to bettering the H human race through their stomachs; and thus H the art of making mint juleps was brought to H perfection. But it was confined to New Orleans, H and when it seeks any other latitude, it is like H fruit when packed green and sent away to a H foreign market it never retains or obtains its H full flavor. In the first place you must sterilize H your mint, for you do not know what experiences H it has had in growing up by the wayside. Then H mash a little in the bottom of the glass not a H silver cup as one of these amateurs says, but a H fine cut-glass. Then fill the glass with fine, H cracked ice, leaving only enough simce for a m jigger of whiskey. Measure the capacity of the M man to adjust the jigger to his needs then shake m the mass for just fifty-seven seconds: then apply B twenty-nine drops of rum (Jamaica pre- m f erred) to give the aristocratic flavor; M then stick two -very thin slices of orange on op- M ponite sides of the glass, a cherry and M a bit of pineapple; then crowd four or m five mint stalks down into the center so that B the tops will spread out over the top; then in- M sert two straws only four inches long, so that the H drinker will be forced to jam his nose down into M the mint before he can use the straws; then col- M lect in advance and leave the imbiber to his M When the last drop is gone, he will look up M and say he believes he will take another. After fl the second one he will only speak' once, and that M will bo to say, "Keep bringln' 'em." When he M falls out of the chair, send for the hurry-up wa- B gon. He will have a good night's rest and will H have only to pay first-class hotel prices to the H police judge in the morning for his lodgings, and H the chances are he will not want any breakfast, H and thus realize that the julep is not only an H aristocrtaic but economical drink. |
