Word: cointreau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father Beaumont's recipe: Pour two bottles of Spanish red wine into jug, add two oranges two lemons and cucumber sliced, splash in one bottle of soda, lace with one-eighth bottle of brandy, drop in teaspoonful of Cointreau and two dashes bitters (or "anything like that") mix well and serve ice cold...
...country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front page," said Churchill (see below). After lunch, when he asked Lord Moran if a Cointreau was permitted, the doctor replied: "Do you want it or do you need it?" Replied Sir Winston: "I neither want it nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime...