Have you heard the term " Bristol Milk" ? This is a definition :
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Bristol Milk is first recorded in 1634. Our old friend Samuel Pepys was in the city in 1668, and mentioned in his diary on June 13th that he was much satisfied with a “good entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pastry, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all, Bristol Milk.”
But what, exactly, is Bristol Milk? Here are a couple of accounts of the famous beverage:
Sherry bottle
The Beer brewed thereof is wholesome against the Spleen. If it should chance that the Crudity of the Waters trouble the Stomach, there is a remedy in this City, and that is Bristol Milk, (a Prov.) or Sherry-Sack, which the Courteous Inhabitants present to all Strangers, when first visiting their City.
Anglorum speculum: or The worthies of England, in church and state, Thomas Fuller (1684)
“The hospitality of the city was widely renowned, and especially the collations with which the sugar refiners regaled their visitors. The repast was dressed in the furnace, and was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk. This luxury was supported by a thriving trade with the North American plantations and with the West Indies. The passion for colonial traffic was so strong that there was scarce a small shopkeeper in Bristol who had not a venture on board of some ship bound for Virginia or the Antilles. Some of these ventures indeed were not of the most honourable kind.”
History of England, Thomas Macaulay (1848)
Bristol Milk (Grose 1811 Dictionary)[]
Bristol Milk[]
A Spanish wine called sherry, much drunk at that place, particularly in the morning.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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