This practical and stylish guide turns non-alcoholic drinks into an art of hospitality, showing how a modern hostess can make even the simplest refreshment feel elegant. With clear glassware, spotless linens, chilled or warmed vessels, and careful presentation, it treats good taste as a matter of detail, while offering recipes that are both economical and attractive for home entertaining. The book begins with fruitades and lemonade variations, then moves through strawberry and berry drinks, frothy lemon beverages, hot lemon cups, and cooling frappés that use fresh fruit, tea, coffee, syrups, canned-fruit juices, and leftover ingredients with thrift and charm. It continues into party punches and fruit cups for gatherings, blending cider, citrus, grapes, ginger ale, sparkling water, honey, and decorative touches like floating fruit and grape garlands. Later sections explain how to preserve grape juice and make old-fashioned homemade beverages such as ginger beer, root beer, spruce beer, birch beer, and cider drinks, before finishing with rich milk, chocolate, and coffee creations, including egg drinks, cream floats, shakes, foams, and punch-like desserts that are as nourishing as they are festive. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

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Stockbridge, Bertha E. L.

Bertha E. L. Stockbridge, born Bertha Edson Lay, was an American writer whose work reflects the practical, instructive spirit of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century domestic literature. Though not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, she earned recognition for writing with clarity, authority, and a keen understanding of everyday life, especially in matters of household management, health, and sensible living. Her best-known writing helped guide readers through questions of nourishment and daily routine at a time when Americans were becoming increasingly interested in scientific approaches to domestic care, diet, and personal well-being. Stockbridge’s work stands out for its blend of usefulness and moral seriousness, addressing the ordinary decisions that shape family life while also engaging broader concerns about moderation, self-discipline, and informed choice. The themes she explored remain relevant because modern readers still face the challenge of sorting practical advice from passing fads, especially in discussions of food, wellness, and domestic responsibility. Her legacy lies in the way she bridged instruction and literature, offering readers not just information but a confident, thoughtful voice grounded in lived experience. Today, Bertha E. L. Stockbridge will especially appeal to readers interested in women’s history, historical household advice, the evolution of health writing, and the everyday wisdom embedded in older American nonfiction.