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The Louisiana Way

"To make a mint julep soak as much mint as possible in as much Bourbon as you 
can afford for about three weeks," Ballard explained. "That gives you a 
greenish brown liquid to be kept in a jug. You mix an Installment of this with 
finely cracked ice and sugar. That's the way we've always done It down here in 
Louisiana."


Irvin S. Cobb.

"The only true mint Julep is the mint Julep Immortalized by Henry Clay. I even 
imagine that old Daniel Boone drank the true mint julep. The greatest mixer of 
mint Juleps who ever lived was Col. Soule Smith, of Lexington. He could not 
only mix the best mint Julep—he set the recipe down in a poetic form that 
remains a masterpiece."

"In the blue grass there is a softer sentiment—a gentler soul. There where the 
wind makes waves of the wheat and scents itself with the aroma of new mown 
hay, there Is no contest with the world outside."

"On summer days when from his throne the great sun dictates his commands, one 
may look forth across broad acres where the long grass falls and rises as the 
winds may blow It. He can see the billowy slopes far off, each heaving as the 
zephyrs touch It with caressing hand. Sigh of the earth, with never a sob—a 
tender sigh, a lover's touch, sho gives the favored land, and the moon smiles 
at her caressingly and the sun gives benediction to the lovers. Nature and 
earth are one—married by the wind and sun and whispering leaflets on the happy 
trees."

Cobb sighed, a tender sigh, and mighty near sobbed. "My boy," he said "Colonel 
Smith was a great, great man, But let us be on. He continued
reading:.(continue to that which Jake has already typed)

However!!!


H. L. Mencken.

"H. L. Mencken, the Baltimore sage, was to have been one of the Judges but he 
announced, with a throb in his voice that he has to leave New York for home 
tomorrow "to witness a hanging of a man who put bourbon whisky in mint Juleps."
"In Maryland." Mencken said, "we use rye whisky. Bourbon puts too much meat on 
the consumer. Look at Cobb. He would butcher better than I would. If we had 
cannibalism in this country he would fetch at least six dollars more than me."
Mencken said that the original mint Julep was developed In the tidewater 
district around the Chesapeake Bay and was mixed with brandy. Various states 
devised their own methods, however, using whisky exclusively, because brandy 
is too expensive."


Cheers!

George

g.sinclair[at]yahoo.co.uk

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