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Country House Brewing in England, 1500-1900 from Amazon.com or
from Amazon UK  Flip, in those days, was a favourite and
fashionable liquor, especially among the New England
settlers....Put into a quart of beer a tablespoonful of brown
sugar, warm it thoroughly by stirring it round with a red hot
poker; add from a gill to half a pint of old Antigua rum; grate
on half a nutmeg; our grandfathers thought it a capital
beverage. Charles Miner, History of Wyoming, 1845  Mary Gaston,
Antique Brass & Copper from Amazon.com or from Amazon UK  Gregg
Smith, Beer in America: The Early Years--1587-1840, from Amazon
The English labourer, according to my experience, prefers to
warm his supper ale with a red-hot poker. Walter Johnson, Folk
Memory, 1908  ..those good old days when it was thought best to
heat the poker red hot before plunging it into the mugs of flip.
This heating of the poker has been disapproved of late years,
but I do not know on what grounds; if