Scotch Whisky Gourmet's Guide - A DRAM LIKE THIS

Lovely Guide written by an expert on all aspects( even Cooking Recipes with Whisky ) of Scotch whisky. First Edition, 1974, Green boards, Gilt lettering on Spine, Very Good condition as is Dustcover. 122 pages. Postage €3.50
".Lord grant guid luck tae a' the Grants, Likewise eternal bliss,
For they should sit among the sa'nts,
That make a dram like this.

These words are inscribed below a portrait of William Grant, under whose aegis Glenfiddich whisky first ran from the stills on Christmas Day, 1887. A DRAM LIKE THIS celebrates over 200 years of distilling by the Grant family, from 16 April 1746, the date of Culloden, when 3 brothers set up their first still, to the present day, when Grant's whiskies are known world-wide, and their Glenfiddich brand has become the first malt whisky to win the Queen's Award.
Alan Reeve-Jones, recounting the history of 'usquebaugh' over the centuries, reveals that the actual method of production has changed very little, though the blends we drink today are by law , matured much longer than was usual in the early days. He also supplies the formulas for a wide variety of whisky cocktails, including such preparations as 'Blood and Sand' and 'Witches' Brew'.

A special chapter on cooking with Scotch whisky -a notion neither as sacrilegious nor as expensive as it may at first seem - features a wide range of unusual and delicious recipes, among them Scotch Chicken, Auld Nick's Highland Deer, Stem Ginger in Whisky, Black Bun, Whisky'd Oranges and Whisky Marmalade, all lovingly prepared and tested by the author's wife.

The Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid contributes a foreword in which he states that one reason for his having lived to such a ripe - and healthy - old age is Scotch whisky, of which he has been a devotee for seventy years.