Iulapium e mentha

Iulapium e mentha (Anglice mint julep) est potio mixta, saeculo XIX in Civitatibus Foederatis requisitissima, e mixturis antiquioribus salutaribus derivata: iulapium enim est potio medicinalis.Vide e.g. Arnaldi de Villa Nova Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum annis 1305/1308 scriptum (editio 1474)

Iulapium e mentha iam anno 1809 ab Washington Irving potionem solitam Neo-Eboracensium fuisse asseveratur: "incolae famose ope iulapii e mentha spiritusque malorum inebriati gaudire solebantur".The inhabitants . . . were notoriously prone to get fuddled and make merry with mint julep and apple toddy: Washington Irving, History of New York (1809) vol. 2 p. 180 fide 

Annis 1820/1830 Novi Eboraci apud City Hotel a pincerna "immortali" Orsamo Willard proponi solebat. Carolus Augustus Murray, peregrinationes suas narrans, iulapium e mentha "potionem" esse ait "quae propius ad nectarem appropinquatur quam ulla antehac a me aut gustata aut figurata".The immortal Willard . . . A beverage approaching more nearly to nectar than any that I had ever tasted or imagined:  Auctor Thomas Mayne Reid anno 1856 confectionem iulepis e mentha a pincerna pontonis Mississippiensis descripsit:
He lifted the glasses one in each hand, and poured the contents from one to the other, so rapidly that ice, brandy, lemons, and all, seemed to be constantly suspended in the air, and oscillating between the glasses. The tumblers themselves at no time approached nearer than two feet from each other! This adroitness, peculiar to his craft, and only obtained after long practice, was evidently a source of professional pride ("Cyathis ambobus manibus sublevatis, impensa ab alio in alium infudit tam rapide ut glacies spiritusque vini limoniaque omniaque continuo aëre suspensa et inter cyathos oscillantia videbantur. Qui cyathi nunquam propius quam duobus pedibus [60 cm] sibi appropinquabant. Haec peritia, illae arti propria, post longas experientias nacta, superbiam professionis sui producere videbatur").A large glass measure of cognac:  vol. 2 p. 167
Francisca Trollope in mythistoria anno 1849 divulgata iulepium e mentha laudavit. vol. 1 pp. 318-319

Praeceptum his verbis a Murray datur: wine [Madeira or claret] mingled in a tumbler with a soupçon of French brandy, lime, and lemon, ice pulverised by attrition, and a small portion of sugar, the whole being crowned with a bunch of fresh mint ("vinum aut Maderense aut Burdigalense in scypho mixtum cum inspersione spiritus vini Francici, lumia, limonio, glacie attrita, saccari modico, quod omne fasciculo menthae viridis incoronatur"). Sed Francisca Trollope loco "inspersionis" spiritus vini "totum poculum" vischii praecepit,A whole wine-glass full of whiskey:  vol. 1 p. 319 Mayne Reid haud dissimiliter (sed alio spiritu) "impensum cyathi magni spiritus Cognacensis"; ambo vinum omittunt; Mayne Reid insuper addit modicum suci ananae ultimis momentis expressi.

 Notae 

 Bibliographia 
 Fontes antiquiores
 1839 : 
 1849 : 
 1856 : 
 c. 1890? : Joshua Soule Smith, "The Mint Julep" Textus plenus?
 1939 : 

 Recentiora 
 Derek Brown, "The Mint Julep: 'The Very Dream of Drinks'" in The Atlantic (30 Aprilis 2010)
 Richard Barksdale Harwell, The Mint Julep. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1975



 Praecepta
 1911 : George R. Washburne, Stanley Bronner, Beverages de luxe (Louisville: Wine & Spirit Bulletin) "Kentucky mint julep"

 Nexus externi 
 "The Mint Julep: The Very Dream of Drinks"
 "The Great Gatsby; Mint Julep" (2013/2021) apud InLiterature
 Tori Avey, "Why We Drink Mint Juleps at the Kentucky Derby" (2015)

Categoria:Potiones mixtae