“...most households distilled their own slivovitz, a brandy made from plums or other fruit. The drink contained a high concentration of copper since it was prepared and boiled in specially made copper vessels...”
—Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The Ghost Disease, and Twelve Other Stories of Detective Work in the Medical Field, (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), 356
“...most households distilled their own slivovitz, a brandy made from plums or other fruit. The drink contained a high concentration of copper since it was prepared and boiled in specially made copper vessels...”
—Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The Ghost Disease, and Twelve Other Stories of Detective Work in the Medical Field, (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), 356
A dry and slightly bitter plum brandy