Word: claret
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were sometimes regarded as "popish" puddings in Cromwell's 17th Century England. In Advent comes St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6)-the time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve hot. "In the chill of the night vigil, it will make you feel like a bishop...
...chance at mead; plain, it tastes like a Rhine wine but has more sting. Special varieties are sack mead, which tastes like Tokay; cyser, in which cider instead of water is mixed with honey to make a wine that tastes like sherry; and pyment, or clarre, which is like claret...
...three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare little Arthur-and Mother Doyle soon fixed that by offering her son the hearty advice: "Wear flannel next your skin, my dear boy, and never believe in eternal...
Table: Rhine, Sauternes,Chablis, Claret, Burgundy
...pope, born in South Africa and educated in Dublin (Trinity College), views the world editorially with a gently Tory tolerance. A bulky, dignified man Casey likes claret, canes, conversation and clubs (his favorite: the stage-minded Garrick). He had planned to retire this year to return to playwriting, his real love. How long did he think he could last in the strenuous editor's job? Says Casey, who is 63: "Three to five years, I should think...