Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton.

  • Mew, James.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Drinks of the world / by James Mew and John Ashton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPLES FOR CIDER. CIDER. THE original meaning of the word cider1 appears to have been strong drink. It was used to designate a liquor made of the juice of any fruit pressed, and an example of the word in this use is to be found in Wycliffe’s Bible, in the speech of the angel to Zacharias (Luke i. 15), in allusion to his promised progeny : He schal not drynke wyn and syder. The next meaning is that of a liquor made from the juice of apples expressed and fermented. 1 It is supposed by the erudite divine, Adam Clarke, to be prob- ably borrowed from the Hebrew word “>?$, Greek crtKepa, which, according to St. Jerome (Epist. ad Nepotianum devita Clericorum, et in Isai. xxvii. 1), means any intoxicating liquor, whether of honey, corn, apples, dates, or other fruits. IIO