The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-09-09

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The speaker was boy who had
Just come i'm from a baseball practice
and he was shaking the unpurchasable
thirst with copious drafts of ice cream
soda water. At least he was trying 10
slake II, but ] had serious doubts If
any drink loaded with rich fruit siruos
and thickened with well-sweetened ice
cream could do much that would
really satisfy thirstiness. 1t might
cool off the drinker, but the thirst
would really grow by that given to
check It,
The same trouble may be found with
many of the mixtures devised in the
household for gratifying thirst in hot
weather, and this is especially true of
beverages containing alcohol ! know
none of these which do not produce
heat within a few minutes after they
are swallowed cool though they may
seem in going down. They induce per-
SEPARATION and this in turn is provoca.
tive of fresh thirst.
There are, however, plenty of good
drinks which are neither alcoholic nor
trying to the digestion, and if you have
a houseful of people who engage in &C.
tive pursuits in the warm wheather It
is well for you to know how to mix a
good assortment of these. When tho
men of the house come in heated from
tramping, or canoeing, or baseball,
when the girls return flushed from
tennis, or golf, or other outdoor exer-
else, there is pretty likely to be a call
for something to drink"-and usually
for something besides water.
OF course, lemonade and iced tea
are always popular, but simple rs
these sound they are often so badly
made that no one who was not ex-
ceptionally thirsty would be likely to
finish the glass. And yet both are as
easily made in the right way as the
wrong, if people only understood it.
The wrong way for iced tea-to take
that which might almost be called the
national soft drinks to let the tea
steep on the leaves after breakfast IN
til you are ready to pour it off to serve
cold for luncheon. By the time it has
been left standing for even half an
hour it has acquired an astringent
taste and character, and you may gain
an idea of how it Fuckers up your
insides from the effect it produces
upon the tongue and the lining of your
mouth.
There are two right ways of making
iced tea. One is to steep it fresh when
you need it and as soon as it is drawn
to pour it, boiling hot, on cracked ice
in glass. This is the genuine Rus
sian tea and is very good-and also
very prodigal of ice. To my own mind
the other method has quite as excel,
lent results.
Make your tea fresh at breakfast
time, using water that has just boiled.
Leave the water on the leaves just
long enough to draw the tea and pour
it off at once into a porcelain pitcher.
AS soon as it has cooled set the pitch,
er in the ice box, where the temporal
ture will be lowered. When you are
ready for it, you may either but a big
lump of ice into the pitcher or smaller
pieces into the glasses. If the latter,
hn oil nh;
especially for this sort of drink. If
you do not wish to purchase them of
handsome glass, buy good substitutes
at the five and ten cent store.
For the benefit of those who desire
trimmings" with their iced tea you
may have sugar and sliced lemon The
genuine tea lover takes none of these,
but finds the iced tea Straight" all
sufficient as a beverage.
You see how simple a matter it is?
Iced coffee is no more trouble, and for
this the coffee left over from break
fast may be utilized. If you use q
percolator or French drip coffee pot
the fluid has not stood on the grounds
long enough to injure the flavor and
the coffee may be poured into a pitch
er and set aside as you would do with
the iced tea. Some persons prefer it
clear and it is certainly more salts,
flying to the thirst than if sugared and
creamed-delicious as it undoubtedly
is with both cream and sugar-especi.
ally when a teaspoonful of whipped
cream is put on top of each glass. A
tablespoonful of ice cream is also d
tempting addition to the tumbler-bwt
as soon as you add this you lessen
the power of the beverage to slaHe
thirst.
u have spoken of the ease with
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