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Subject: For the historians out there
From: Daniel McLaury
Posted: Sun Oct 15. 2006, 21:43 UTC
From Fanny Fern's "Ruth Hill," originally published 1855:

"... the speaker and her companion entered the famous saloon of La Temps, 
where might be seen any sunny day, between the hours of twelve and three, the 
disgusting spectacle of scores of ladies devouring, ad infinitum, 
brandy-drops, Roman punch, Charlotte Russe, pies, cakes, and ices; and sipping 
'parfait amour,'..."

I know that Roman Punch is a rum-champagne punch, and I know what pairfait 
amour is.  Google tells me that a "Charlotte Russe" is a desert made of 
bavarian creme and ladyfingers.  But what is a brandy-drop?


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