Pomegranate and is now widely distributed in the United States and Canada. Grenadine syrup long ago consisted of thickened and sweetened pomegranate juice, now is usually a sales name for a syrup based on various berries, citric acid, and food coloring, mainly used in cocktail mixing. In Europe, Bols still manufactures grenadine syrup with pomegranate. Before tomatoes (a New World fruit) arrived in the Middle East, pomegranate juice, molasses, and vinegar were widely used in many Iranian foods, and are still found in traditional recipes such as "fesenjān", a thick sauce made from pomegranate juice and ground walnuts, usually spooned over
Godfrey's Cordial one of the most adulterated drugs in Victorian England. Godfrey's cordial contained about 1 grain of opium per ounce apothecaries' system (~0.26% by mass) and was readily available without prescription in England and North America. Godfrey's cordial had long been recognised as leading to fatal cases of opium poisoning. However, it continued to be made and used until the early twentieth century, at least in part due to the ease with which it could be manufactured. It was reportedly sold in enormous quantities in eighteenth century England, a time-span that has been popularly referred to as the "golden age of