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Updated: May 12, 2025
If a fresh egg were beaten into the flip the drink was called "bellows-top," and the froth rose over the top of the mug. "Stone-wall" was a most intoxicating mixture of cider and rum. "Calibogus," or "bogus," was cold rum and beer unsweetened. "Black-strap" was a mixture of rum and molasses.
Jorrocks he's one of the oldest customers I have and one of the best none of your 'glass of water and toothpick' gentleman real downright, black-strap man, likes it hot and strong from the wood always pays like a gentleman never fights about three-pences, like some people I know," looking at Jemmy. "Pray, what rooms may you require?" "Vy, there's myself, Mr. Jorrocks, and Mr.
As you stand, no seats are allowed, you can partake of sweet cider, lemonade, apples, gingerbread, and pies and buns of all kinds. If you call for it, you can have New-England rum, or its more popular substitute, "black-strap," one-half rum and the other half molasses.
But the old settlers, those who, during the drouth of '60, ate mince pies with pumpkins as the fruit and rabbit meat as the filling and New Orleans black-strap as the sweetening, the old settlers who knew Watts before he became famous, they like best of all the chapters in the colonel's Biography the one entitled "At Hymen's Altar."
Casks of it stood in every country store, a salted and dried codfish slyly hung alongside a free lunch to be stripped off and eaten, and thus tempt, through thirst, the purchase of another draught of black-strap. A terrible drink is said to have been popular in Salem a drink with a terrible name whistle-belly-vengeance.
Sir Wycherly guv' me a glass of his black-strap, as I ran through the dining-room, and told me to drink 'Confusion to the Pretender, which I did, with hearty good-will; but his liquor will no more lay alongside of the ale they've down on the orlop, than a Frenchman will compare with an Englishman.
"When bucks to dinner go, And cits to sup," The Maior, as far as the bridge of Vallé, was navigable for the small craft from Lisbon, so that our table, while we remained there, cut as respectable a figure, as regular supplies of rice, salt fish, and potatoes could make it; not to mention that our pig-skin was, at all times, at least three parts full of a common red wine, which used to be dignified by the name of black-strap.
Awaiting the inspection, soldiers on leave of absence mingle with the commoners, partake of the refreshments, including the black-strap, and nod their plumes or rattle their swords while they dance the "double shuffle" or "cut a double pigeon-wing" on the platforms, to the great wonder of the crowd. When the regiment gathers itself together it is a sight to behold.
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