New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-11
A Lost Liquor.


9huh; known as q wholesome kind Of malt ffduor
originally prepared in Germany vaa An AHA firne
IN llsh lay9r y book called Englands I'm
proyementS by sea end Land1 bv one Andrew
Yarranton, published in 1917. there IL an atrsor.
dinary proposition for bringing over The ronn,
trade from Brunswick, and establishing Il al e;tTat
tord-upon- Avon: There can be no doabt how
ever, that in addition to the mum imported large
quantities of it were manufactured IN FnoIa5d
about this time; the popular demand for se iIaroT
Of course, inducing plentiful supply oft IN The
Harlealn dlscellaney may be found the reprint Of
curious work, entitled, 1.-THE Natural History az
Coffee, Thee, Chocolate and Tobacco, in four sew
eral sections, with a tract of Elder end Janiner
berries, showing how useful they may be in our
il eHouses; alla dLso tae traQ Of making ana.
from the writings of the best physicians and mod
ern travellers. Printed at London for Christopher
Wilkinson at the Black Boy, over against St.
Danstan's church, in Fleet street, 1882" The re-
celpt gwen Tor the manufacture of mum, processes
to be in accordance with the method adopted by
"The House of Brunswick, and as il was sent
from thence to General Monk
To make vessel of sixtY-three gallons we are
instructed that " the water mnst be first boiled to
the consumption Of third part, then let 1t be
hrewed according to art y with seven bushels OF
wheatmalt one bushel Of oatmalt, and one
bushel of ground beans. When this mixture
begins to work, the following ingredients are to
be added: three pounds of the inner rind of the
tlr one pound each OF the tops of the fir and the
birch; three handfuls of the carduus benedietus
hurnet, betony, marjoram, avens pennyroyal
flowers OF elder, and wild thyme one handful and
nall each; three ounces OF bruised seeds OF car
damum; and one ounce Of bruised bay-berrieg.
subsequently, ten new-laid eggs, not cracked or
broken, aresto be put into the hogshead which is
then to be stopped close, and not tapped for two
years, sea-yOyage meanwhile being recon-
mended as vastly behefting the liquor. One DR..
4f5gidias Holman was inclined to add to each hogs
head six handfuls each of water-eresses, brook
line, wild parsley, and rasped horse -radish but
these were regarded as supplementary Ingredients
70 be used OF not, according to the taste Of the
manufacturer. 1t was to be observed however,
that the horse-radish e made the mum drink more
quick than that which had none.n
Our author proceeds to state that if the mum
makers of London are careful and honest to pre-
pare the liquor after the prescribed Brunswick
fashion, 1t cannot but be regarded as a powerful
preventive of scarbutic and calculous disorders
he relates as an historical fact that when the
Swedes carried on war against the MuseoVftes
the scurvy did so domineer among them that their
army did langnish and moulder away to nothing,
TIL once encamping near a great number sc
hr trees they began to boil the tops OF them in
their drink, which recovered the army to a mir.
aele; from whence,n he says, the Sweaes can
the r the scorhutie tree to this very day. 10 the
turpentine contained in the fir he attributes it's
curative properties and considers that as turpen-
tine has been proved to be very effective in pre-
serving dead bodies themselves from putrefactiou
and corruption, it cannot fail to be Of great value
to the hying-a somewhat suspicious reasoning, it
must De owned. Further on he admits that the
liquors into which the shavings of fir are put NAV
be apt TO create pains in the head but this disad-
vantage he considers to be outweighed by "the
Vlgor and preservation of the drink
The especial value of mum was held to arise
from the absence of hops in its composition. Some
authorities were found to maintain resontely that
hops do spoil our English ales and beers, usher
ing IN infections, nay, plaques among usn The
eggs used IN the composition of mum were sun
posed to prevent its growing sour. 9 their sheIIa
sweetening vinegar and destroying acidsm The
authority of one DR.. Stubbs, who had made a vow
age 10 Jamaica, was quoted in this respect DR..
olupos progressed to have aScertained by exueri-
ment 8 that eggs put whole into vessel preserve
many drinks even to admiration in long voyages ::
the shells and whites will be deYoured and lost
ont the yolks LETT untouehed.n Finally mum was
neld TO be OF value as preventive and restorative
IN cases of consumption. The author expresses
his apprehension, however. that several Jnndnners
are not sufficiently honest and curious to prepare
ehelf mum faithfully and truly. If they.d0 he af-
irns, that they are so happy as to furnish and
STOCK their country with one of the most useful
liquors underthe snR; and he lays stress upon the
fdct that the ingredients in its composition are very
rare and choice simples, there being scarcely any
disease IN nature against which some one of them
IS not sure specific, and he seems to imply that
the combination of these ingredients must larreIv
increase their curative properties He apologizes
for the incnmpleteness Of his work but trusta II
may be faVOrably received as an ESSAY or tonic
Tor men to reason upon when they meet together
IN public houses by which term he probably aid
not intend to signify inns and taverns simply.
IN one of the four hundred letters addressed bv
Sir Richard Steele to his wife we find him writing.
under date December 4, 17l7;"I went to bed
last4lght after taking only little BROTH and all
the day before little tea and bread and butter
with two glasses of mum, and piece of bread al
the House of Commons. Temperance and your
company, as agreeable as yoa can make ii, win
make lie tolerable, ifnot easy, with the goutp
steele was at this time member for Borough
bridge, in Yorkshire. 1t is presumable from The
general tenor Of his letters that he took his two
glasses Of man incidentally. There is hardly need
TO state that modern member Of Parliament
might apply in yain at Bellamy's for the liquor.
mum mas become an obsolete drink and is not,
we imagine, likely to come in vogue again. Even
the most daring eHpermentast in cupaaud mixed
drinks will probably shrink from testing the merits
Of the concoction above described. 1t was most
hkely taken with sugar, though the receipt is
silent IN that respect. Even then it could hardly
have been, Que would fancy, very inviting bey-
erage. 1t had its day of favor however, and may
no" be regarded as lost liquor 1t probably dis
appeared as porter and stout became popular,
Our ancestors did not relish that bitterness Of the
hop, which is decidedly a desideratum in modern
brewing. They liked sweet drinks, and added
lgar to their sack and sherry. OF Mecklin, the
actor, when hundred years old, his biographer
relates: " 1t had been constant rule, for period
OF thirty years and upwards, to visit a public
house called the Antelope, in White Heart Yard
CoYent Garden, where his usual beverage was a
pint OF beer called stout, which was made not and
sweetened with moist sugar, almost to a svrun.
This he said, balmed his stomcch, and kent MIN
from having any inward palms, To many the
remedy will seem almost as bad as the disease.
Gentlemen of the old school may even now be-
found who hold Bass's celebrated beer and Anon
ullado sherry alike in ahhorrence OF old those
laYorlte drlnks would have been deemed wholly
ypnpalatable, unless immoderately sweetened. Ths
bitterness of the beer and the peculiar drvness Of
the wine, however valued now.a-days, would have
t found sing9larly few admirers in the last CEN
tury.-[N. Y. Leader.
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