New-York tribune., 1900-05-18
NECTAR AND ANBROSIA.
ONE RECEIPT LOST. BUT THE OTHER Be
LIEvED TO BE STILL IN USE

In these days. when cheap wit is expended in
such large measure to instiI the belief that young
women are unified by college education for all the
occupations which were formerly thought
anly. such a letter The Tribune has just received
is comfort. 1t shows that the glorious of
cookery is still object of feminine aspiration
and that the highest SUBMITS of the still
sought. The letter is from young woman. That
she is a is apparent from the name which
she signs and II is than likely that she is
also young, because the writing is of that large.
free sort which has been adopted by women for
the most part only within comparatively recent
years, so that it seldom proceeds from the pen Of
an old a middle aged The letter
says:
Can you tell me how to make the nectar used by
the Greeks, or the ambrosia? Or any other light
refreshment used by the Greeks win you reply
use the receipts on Monday
It is pity that such desire for the highest is
likely to be i'll rewarded, but it cannot be
wasted. The writer of this letter asks for more
than anybody gain, but one with such a spirit
will not be easily daunted, and in the will
win the best there is.
But to ambrosia. IL never used by the
Greeks" II used by the gods OF the Greeks
who lived Mount Olympus, but when they were
driven thence they took the receipt with them. and
ii has never been seen since II was a sad thing
that 1t should be lost. for it eating this am
brosia which conferred on the gods their tmmor-
talty, and the dish would be in much demand now,
for that reason If for no other. if anybody knew
now TO make IL.
The real simon pure nectar was also drink of
the Greek gods. and of the Greek men. II had
the power of comforting those who drank
divine personal beauty and grace The receipt for
that also was lost in the haste Of the exit Of the
gods from Olympus, but II has always been the
belief of the present writer that II has been
discovered and is in general by mis- country
women. There is no other way account the
facts. But they evidently make secret of it and
tell II only 10 one another. Probably the writer of
the letter here quoted knows the secret well
anybody, and her asking for the receipt be
accounted for by mere man only on the suppOst-
ton that the drink goes by some other name now,
and that she has the receipt without knowing it.
If the present writer knew the receipt he would
not give II here lest it should fall into the hands
Of foreigners.
There was, indeed, a drink common in parts of
Greece which went by the name but il did
not pretend 10 be the nectar of the gods. It
made OF wine, honey and spices, and it might not
prove unpleasant TO the modern taste but nobody
seems to care enough about ii TO make II. and IL is
likely that the epicure in drinks would prefer his
wine, his honey and his spices separate-Say the
wine first then Glove. and the honey any odd
hour of the day that seemed appropriate. How
ever, for some special occasion Of entertainment
this ancient drink might be an interesting expert
ment- 1t is humiliattng 20 be unable to give
ceipts for any other light refreshments used by
he