purl
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
is an English drink of the seventeenth century made by infusing ale or, for Purl Royal, wine with wormwood and often other botanicals. See Wormwood, botanical. A form of simple digestive, it was often taken in the morning to combat hangovers. In the nineteenth century, the name was applied to warm ale stiffened with gin.
By: Dave Wondrich
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).