Comments on: As the Verte louches… http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/ Dans le Doubs, absinthe-toi! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: The Standard Deviant http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/#comment-940 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:44:07 +0000 http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/#comment-940 Correction to my previous comment: The date of the book should have been 1863. Correction to my previous comment: The date of the book should have been 1863.

]]> by: The Standard Deviant http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/#comment-939 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:44:00 +0000 http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/#comment-939 The Grace-cup and Loving-cup appear to be synonymous terms for a beverage, the drinking of which has been from time immemorial a great feature at the corporation dinners in London and other large towns, as also at the feasts of the various trade companies and the Inns of Court,—the mixture of which is a compound of wine and spices, formerly called “Sack,” and is handed round the table, before the removal of the cloth, in large silver cups, from which no one is allowed to drink before the guest on either side of him has stood up ; the person who drinks then rises and bows to his neighbours. This custom is said to have originated in the precaution to keep the right or dagger hand employed, as it was a frequent practice with the Danes to stab their companions in the back at the time they were drinking. The most notable instance of this was the treachery employed by Elfrida, who stabbed King Edward the Martyr at Corfe Castle whilst thus engaged. At the Temple the custom of the Loving-cup is strictly observed. The guests are only supposed to take one draught from it as it passes ; but, in No. 110 of the ‘Quarterly Review,’ a writer says, “Yet it be chanced, not long since at the Temple, that, though the number present fell short of seventy, thirty-six quarts of the liquor were consumed.” – Cups and Their Customs, 1855. The Grace-cup and Loving-cup appear to be synonymous terms for a beverage, the drinking of which has been from time immemorial a great feature at the corporation dinners in London and other large towns, as also at the feasts of the various trade companies and the Inns of Court,—the mixture of which is a compound of wine and spices, formerly called “Sack,” and is handed round the table, before the removal of the cloth, in large silver cups, from which no one is allowed to drink before the guest on either side of him has stood up ; the person who drinks then rises and bows to his neighbours. This custom is said to have originated in the precaution to keep the right or dagger hand employed, as it was a frequent practice with the Danes to stab their companions in the back at the time they were drinking. The most notable instance of this was the treachery employed by Elfrida, who stabbed King Edward the Martyr at Corfe Castle whilst thus engaged. At the Temple the custom of the Loving-cup is strictly observed. The guests are only supposed to take one draught from it as it passes ; but, in No. 110 of the ‘Quarterly Review,’ a writer says, “Yet it be chanced, not long since at the Temple, that, though the number present fell short of seventy, thirty-six quarts of the liquor were consumed.”

– Cups and Their Customs, 1855.

]]> by: Myron http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/#comment-845 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:23:21 +0000 http://oxygenee.com/blog/2007/01/27/as-the-verte-louches/#comment-845 interesting interesting

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