The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-14
A I.ist of Summer Drinks.


 I know not who may win the prize describing temperance drinks for sum mer. but know the sort of person best equipped to do so-the veteran drink mixer at a soda water fountain or the nurse trained to scientific knowledge of beverages. The best method for making a first class lemonade Is to use lactose instead of cane sugar; besides neutralizing the acid in the lemon, 1t has a higher nutritive value than cane sugar Some like crushed ice, but I believe, with the Japanese. that the in- tense cold is injurious to dige stion. and use a pleasantly cool spring water that I am sure is wholesome, and that know contains iron, soda, potash and lime combination, with silicic and car bonic acid gases.
 cooling drink for a feverish pa- tient Is tamarind water, made from preserved tamarinds well mixed with boiling water. Let the mixture stand half an hour, then strain and sweeter. highly nutritious drink for the same patient would be pineapple eggnog, be- cause the fruit contains a ferment which helps to digest the proteid in the egg. Beat the egg slightly with silver fork, as 1t seems to create less gas than a beater. add anywhere from three tablespoonfuls upward (accord- ing to amount of drink desired) of cool water to about three taolespoonfuls of pineapple juice expressed from fresh fruit strain and swaeten slightly with lactose.
 For a pleasant drink in camping out or picknicking nothing can excel car bonated water to which is added or ange juice and a few crushed mint leaves freshly plucked. The merry makers quaffing such a draught may with impunity devour devilled ham, an gel cake and all the other extremes of food usually to be found with an outing party.
 What Is a good home summer drink" Buttermilk, if you will drink 1t at a time when solid food Is repellant; say during sultry August, when leaves on trees are dusty from want of the long defered rain, when humidity Is ap- presive, when bodily exertion makes one swelter and droop. Then take a meal of buttermilk and an oatmeal | cracker. The while you dine thus sumptuously have a chat with Horace Fletcher. who will surely tell you to bite, chew and taste every morsel. An | other good home summer drink is a | mixture of grapefruit, oranges and crushed strawberries.
 What is a safe, stimulating drink for | those trying to give up beer and other alcoholic beverages? For some such persons think you might well send them to Greece for the fabled waters of Nepenthe, and if they refused to take that journey I would be tempted to pre- sent them with can of ether But then, again, for some others, would suggest frothy mixture of well beat en egg and filtered coffee. or brandy cocoa, consisting of cocoa, scalded milk boiling water sugar, salt and tiny hint of brandy. Another recipe is cocoa cordial. which consists of break fast cocoa, sugar snlt. boiling water and tablespoonful of port. The last two might be beneficial In that queer con dition. of affairs l have heard ,n1en de- scribe as 'tapering off For the per so naceustomed to habitual indulgence in Iiauors and beer a we'll made cup of coffee in the morning, supplemented by plenty of pure spring water during the day. Is most satisfying, the ordi- nary temperance drinks being distaste- full to a person with such an appetite