{"id":21734,"date":"2013-08-20T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21734"},"modified":"2013-08-19T19:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T00:14:38","slug":"qotd-queen-victorias-tipple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/qotd-queen-victorias-tipple\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Queen Victoria&#8217;s Tipple"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">1\/2 tumbler red wine<br \/>Scotch<\/p>\n<p>I have it on the authority of Colm Brogan that the Great Queen was &#8220;violently opposed to teetotalism, consenting to have one cleric promoted to a deanery only if he promised to stop advocating the pernicious heresy,&#8221; and that the above was her dinner-table drink, &#8220;a concoction that startled Gladstone&#8221; &mdash; as I can well believe.<\/p>\n<p>The original recipe calls for claret, but anything better than the merely tolerable will be wasted. The quantity of Scotch is up to you, but I recommend stopping a good deal short of the top of the tumbler. Worth trying once.<\/p>\n<p>Scholars will visualize, pouring in the whisky, the hand of John Brown, the Queen&#8217;s Highland servant, confidant and possibly more besides; and I for one, if I listen carefully can hear him muttering, &#8220;Och, Your Majesty, dinna mak&#8217; yoursel&#8217; unweel wi&#8217; a&#8217; yon parleyvoo moothwash &mdash; ha&#8217;e a wee dram o&#8217; guid malt forbye.&#8221; Or words to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsley Amis, <em>Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis<\/em>, 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/2 tumbler red wineScotch I have it on the authority of Colm Brogan that the Great Queen was &#8220;violently opposed to teetotalism, consenting to have one cleric promoted to a deanery only if he promised to stop advocating the pernicious heresy,&#8221; and that the above was her dinner-table drink, &#8220;a concoction that startled Gladstone&#8221; &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,57,41,131],"tags":[104,396],"class_list":["post-21734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-humour","category-quotations","category-wine","tag-booze","tag-monarchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21751,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions\/21751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}