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Captain Marryat gives the following recipe for its preparation: "Put into a tumbler about a dozen sprigs of the tender shoots of mint; upon them put a spoonful of white sugar, and equal proportions of peach and common brandy, so as to fill up one-third, or, perhaps, a little less; then take rasped or pounded ice, and fill up the tumbler. Epicures rub the lip...