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| + | "Rum, Whiskey, Brandy, Gin, Stinkibus, Bitters, Toddy, Grog, '''Slings''' and fifty other liquors all come under the denomination of spirits". | ||
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===[http://books.google.com/books?id=uCJf-KAdBy8C&vid=OCLC01646749&jtp=iii "Antigua and the Antiguans", By Flannigan, Lanaghan, 1844]=== | ===[http://books.google.com/books?id=uCJf-KAdBy8C&vid=OCLC01646749&jtp=iii "Antigua and the Antiguans", By Flannigan, Lanaghan, 1844]=== | ||
"After lunch, your former amusements are resumed, until the sun loses a little of its intensity, when bonnets and shawls are called into requisition, and you stroll to the "boiling-house" to see the preparation of sugar-boiling going on, and taste the "sling," (the name given to the sugar when in its liquid state,)" | "After lunch, your former amusements are resumed, until the sun loses a little of its intensity, when bonnets and shawls are called into requisition, and you stroll to the "boiling-house" to see the preparation of sugar-boiling going on, and taste the "sling," (the name given to the sugar when in its liquid state,)" | ||
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==Slings== | ==Slings== | ||
Revision as of 17:42, 21 September 2006
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Earliest Sling Reference (c.1675)
First recorded definition of a Sling, circa 1675, quoted in the 2 volume "Beverages Past & Present" (Edward R. Emerson, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1908) as follows:
"Long-sup or sling was one half water and one half rum with sugar in it to taste."
Historical References
"Maryland Journal", 21st May 1788
"Rum, Whiskey, Brandy, Gin, Stinkibus, Bitters, Toddy, Grog, Slings and fifty other liquors all come under the denomination of spirits".
"Antigua and the Antiguans", By Flannigan, Lanaghan, 1844
"After lunch, your former amusements are resumed, until the sun loses a little of its intensity, when bonnets and shawls are called into requisition, and you stroll to the "boiling-house" to see the preparation of sugar-boiling going on, and taste the "sling," (the name given to the sugar when in its liquid state,)"
