Methodist Magazine in London, Middlesex

Toddy and Its Source from Cabbage-like Palm Shoots

The extract describes palm shoots yielding a cabbage-like core and sap that becomes Toddy, a cooling beverage fermented into an ardent spirit called Pariah Arrack. It notes how sap harvesters climb at night, the beverage popularity among Europeans and locals, and the religious bans on intoxication among Hindus. It explains the drink's effects, distillation outcomes, and the varying fruiting of the trees, including cocoa-nut clusters from buds left intact.