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Subject: Re: Request-Colonial style Grog
From: jessikate
Posted: Thu Sep 15. 2005, 20:22 UTC
Followup to: "Request-Colonial style Grog"  by PAUL FOUST  (Thu Sep 15. 2005, 19:39 UTC)
> 
> Once again i am asking for a early drink recipe used during colonial 
> times.It was called Grog. Mainly in the Royal Navy. I was watching a 
> History Channel and they mentioned that the rum back in the 1700's 
> was 5 times more powerful than today's. Man!! I would like to have 
> had some of that rum. But,anyway,can anyone offer up a version of 
> Grog that more than likely was used in the colonial days??? Thanks. 

This link sends you to a history of grog - well annotated and interesting, If 
I don't say so myself:

http://www.contemplator.com/history/grog.html

The recipie from that particular website reads as so:

Grog
1 shot rum
1 teaspoon sugar (preferably superfine)
Squeeze of lime juice
Cinnamon stick
Boiling water
Stir all ingredients, adding enough boiling water to fill mug or glass. 
 

These are just other interesting tidbits I gound in my search.

Grog \'gräg\ n [Old Grog, nickname of Edward Vernon 1757 E admiral responsible 
for diluting the sailors' rum] : spirituous liquor; specif : liquor (as rum) 
cut with water.

Grog: Traditionally, 2 parts water, 1 part Pusser's rum 


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