The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-22
NECTAR AND AMBRosIA.
One Receipt Lost. But the other he
Iieved 10 BE Still in Use.

One Receipt Lost. But the other Be-
Iieved 10 BE StilI in Use.
From the New York Tribune.
In these days, when cheap wit is ex-
pended in such large measure TO instill
the belief that young women are untitled
by college education for all the occupa-
tons which were formerly thought wo-
manly, such letter as the Tribune has
just received is a comfort 1t shows that
| he glorious art of cookery is still an OBJ
eet of feminine aspiration and that the
ghest SUBMITS of the art are still
ought. The letter is from a young wo-
an. That she is woman is Apparent
rom the name which she signs and it
more than likely that she is also young.
because the writ is of that large, free
sort which has been adopted by women
for the most part only within compare
lively recent years, so that it seldom pro-
ceeds from the pen of old or even a
middle aged woman, The letter says:
Can you tie me how to make the nectar
| used by the Greeks. or the ambrosia? Or
| any other ght refreshmelt used by the
Greeks VIII you r Ply at your earliest
possible convenience, as | wish to use the
rscsipts on Monday?
II is a p ty that such sre for the
! highest is kelly TO be so Ill rewarded, but
, it cannot be wasted. The writer of this
| letter asks for more than anybody can
gain, but enc with such a spirit will not
be easily daunted, and in the end she wi
wn he best there s.
| But as to ambrosia, it was never used
| by the Greeks" 1t was used by the god
CT the Greeks, who lived on Mount Olym-
pus bur when they were driven thence
! they took the receipt with them, and il
| has never been seen since 1t was a sad
| 81 ha
eating this ambrosia which conferred on
the goes their immortality, and the dish
would be in much demand now, for that
! reason if for no other if anybody knew
! how to make it.
| The real, simon pure nectar was also a
| drink of the Greek gods, and not OF the
! Greek men. II had the power of conferr-
ing on those who drank it divine per on
| al beauty and grace. The receipt for IN L
also was lost, in the haste of the ext of
the gods from Olympus, but 1t has alw VS.
been the belief of the present writer that
II has been rediscovered and is in gene al
use by his country women. There is 10
other way to account for the facts. But
they evidently make a secret Ct il and eel
it only to one another. Probably the wri er
of the letter here quoted knows the scored
as well as anybody, and hsr ask
ing for the receipt can be accoun { d
for by a mere man only on the supposition
that the drink goes by some other MIN
now, and that she has the receipt without
knowing it. If the present writer knew
the receipt he would not give IL here lest
ii should fall into the hands of foreigners
There was. indeed, drink common in
parts of Greece which went by the me-
name, but II did not pretend to be the nee
tar of the gods. 1t was made of wi e.
honey and spices, and ii might not prove
unpleasant to rhe modern taste, bu. nc body
seems TO care enough about 1t to make IL,
and 1t is likely that the epicure in drinks
would prefer his wine, his honey and hi )
spices separate-say. the wine first, then
a Glove and the honey at any odd hour
of the day that seemed appropriate. How
ever, for some special occas sion of enter
tainment this ancient drink might be on
Interesting experiment Ii is humiliating
10 be unable TO give receipts fer amy 9th r
light refreshments used by the Greeks"