New Year’s Eve at Orestone Manor

The Age of

Arrival Drink; bathtub Gin Champagne Cocktail with Raspberry Marshmallow Bootleggers Canapes: Cheese Tarts, Mini Pizza, Filo Prawns, Honey and Wholegrain Mustard Pork

Dinner Menu

To Begin

Al Capone’s Bloody Tomato Soup

Maryland Crab Cakes, Sweetcorn Puree, Spring Onion

Hot Gumbo Truffled Mac n Cheese

Refresher Course

Gin and cranberry and Sorbet

The Main Event

Sticky Hickory BBQ Alabama Roasted Whole Fillet of Beef; Hickory BBQ marinade, Black Garlic, Cheesy Mash

Pan Fried Sea Bass Fillet, Crayfish Tails, Butter Garlic Sauce or Bouillabaisse

Maggie Bailey’s Mushroom, Chestnut and Cranberry Tart

Sweets

Assiette plate: Blueberry New York Cheesecake, Jack Daniels Ice Cream, Chocolate Fudge Cake, Raspberry Jello and Pistachio Panacotta

Apple and Cinnamon Doughnuts

Cheese Plate of Godminster Cheddar, Sharpham Brie, Dorset Blue, fruit, Chutney, Biscuits

Finale Americano Coffee or Tea, Chocolates and Fudge

The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors– ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. Under the terms of the act, prohibition began on 17 January 1920. The act defined ‘intoxicating liquor’ as anything that contained one half of one per cent alcohol by volume, but allowed the sale of alcohol for medicinal, sacramental, or industrial purposes. The 18th Amendment and were more easily passed than enforced. Doctors were allowed to prescribe alcohol for ‘medicinal’ purposes and to purchase it themselves for ‘laboratory’ use, and many interpreted these terms loosely. The sale of ‘sacramental wine’ also rose significantly in the early years of prohibition. The private possession or consumption of alcohol itself was not itself illegal and, as many Americans continued to demand alcoholic beverages, criminals stepped in to meet the demand by illegitimate means. Where previously there had been bars and saloons, there were now illegal drinking dens known as ‘’ or ‘blind pigs’, which by the end of the decade were numbered at an estimated 200,000. People also took to producing their own illicit booze or ‘moonshine’, ‘bath-tub gin’ or home-brewed beer. In 1929 Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the former Assistant US Attorney General who had headed prohibition prosecutions, conceded that alcohol could be purchased “at almost any hour of the day or night, either in rural districts, the smaller towns, or the cities.” At the same time prohibition almost completely destroyed the brewing industry, causing a huge loss in jobs. It also resulted in a loss of $11bn in tax revenues, and cost $300m to enforce. Passed in February 1933 and ratified on 5 December 1933, the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th and so ended prohibition in the United States. Control of alcohol after 1933 became a state rather than a federal issue. A small number of states remained ‘dry’ for some years – Mississippi was the last until 1966.