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a cocktail that demands frost on the cup and patience in the drinker
original meaningPersian gulab meant rosewater, not bourbon
once medicinejuleps were drunk as morning health tonics
derby ritualroughly 120,000 served at Churchill Downs yearly
proper cupsilver or pewter, gripped to frost the metal
mint trickslap the leaves, never muddle to bitterness