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a cocktail that demands frost on the cup and patience in the drinker
means A sweet drink, most famously a chilled bourbon cocktail muddled with sugar, crushed ice, and fresh mint and served in a frosted cup.
from The word traveled a long road before it ever met bourbon. It comes, via French and Latin, from the Arabic julāb, itself borrowed from the Persian gulāb — literally 'rose water,' from gul ('rose') and āb ('water'). In medieval medicine a julep was a sweetened liquid used to make bitter remedies go down, so the drink began life as a spoonful of sugar before it became a Southern porch ritual with mint and ice.
- original meaning
- Persian gulab meant rosewater, not bourbon
- once medicine
- juleps were drunk as morning health tonics
- derby ritual
- roughly 120,000 served at Churchill Downs yearly
- proper cup
- silver or pewter, gripped to frost the metal
- mint trick
- slap the leaves, never muddle to bitterness
mint julep — kentucky derby's official drink since 1938, traditionally served in silver cups at churchill downs
georgia julep — southern cocktail variant popular in atlanta and the deep south, often made with bourbon and fresh mint