Iulapium e mentha
Iulapium e mentha (Anglice mint julep) est potio mixta, saeculo XIX in Civitatibus Foederatis requisitissima, e mixturis antiquioribus salutaribus derivata: iulapium enim est potio medicinalis. Iulapium e mentha iam anno 1809 ab Washington Irving potionem solitam Neo-Eboracensium fuisse asseveratur: "incolae famose ope iulapii e mentha spiritusque malorum inebriati gaudire solebantur". Annis 1820/1830 Novi Eboraci apud City Hotel a pincerna "immortali" Orsamo Willard proponi solebat. Carolus Augustus Murray, peregrinationes suas narrans, iulapium e mentha "potionem" esse ait "quae propius ad nectarem appropinquatur quam ulla antehac a me aut gustata aut figurata". Auctor Thomas Mayne Reid anno 1856 confectionem iulepis e mentha a pincerna pontonis Mississippiensis descripsit: He lifted the glasses one in each hand, and poured the contents from one to the other, so rapidly that ice, brandy, lemons, and all, seemed to be constantly suspended in the air, and oscillating between the glasses. The tumblers themselves at no time approached nearer than two feet from each other! This adroitness, peculiar to his craft, and only obtained after long practice, was evidently a source of professional pride ("Cyathis ambobus manibus sublevatis, impensa ab alio in alium infudit tam rapide ut glacies spiritusque vini limoniaque omniaque continuo aëre suspensa et inter cyathos oscillantia videbantur. Qui cyathi nunquam propius quam duobus pedibus [60 cm] sibi appropinquabant. Haec peritia, illae arti propria, post longas experientias nacta, superbiam professionis sui producere videbatur"). Francisca Trollope in mythistoria anno 1849 divulgata iulepium e mentha laudavit. Praeceptum his verbis a Murray datur: wine [Madeira or claret] mingled in a tumbler with a soupçon of French brandy, lime, and lemon, ice pulverised by attrition, and a small portion of sugar, the whole being crowned with a bunch of fresh mint ("vinum aut Maderense aut Burdigalense in scypho mixtum cum inspersione spiritus vini Francici, lumia, limonio, glacie attrita, saccari modico, quod omne fasciculo menthae viridis incoronatur"). Sed Francisca Trollope loco "inspersionis" spiritus vini "totum poculum" vischii praecepit, Mayne Reid haud dissimiliter (sed alio spiritu) "impensum cyathi magni spiritus Cognacensis"; ambo vinum omittunt; Mayne Reid insuper addit modicum suci ananae ultimis momentis expressi.