Bay rum

Le bay rum est le nom d'une lotion de style Eau de Cologne ou après-rasage[1]. On l'applique en massage après le sport pour « détend(re) les muscles fatigués. Elle est utilisée par les Antillais comme lotion de massage pour soulager les courbatures, les douleurs et les refroidissements[2] »

Carte d'affaire du XIX^e siècle, montrant du bay rum fabriqué à St. Thomas.

Il s'agit d'un distillat qui a été initialement fabriqué sur Saint-Thomas (Îles Vierges des États-Unis) "et probablement d'autres îles des Antilles"[3] du rhum et des feuilles ou des baies de la plante Pimenta racemosa[4]. D'autres ingrédients peuvent être des huiles d'agrumes et des huiles d'épices (l'huile de lime étant le plus commun), de l'huile de clou de girofle et [5] de la cannelle.

Il est d'abord en vogue à New York [6] et d'autres villes américaines avant qu'il ne soit disponible en Europe[7]^,[8].

Il est utilisé comme un substitut d'alcool ou de whiskey durant la Prohibition[9] ou parmi les Amérindiens sur le Territoire indien[10].

Références

(en)stjohnbayrum.com.
« Bay rum Benjamins », Senteur des Caraïbes (consulté le 9 mai 2013).
John M. Maisch (Philadelphia), "On the Origin of Bay Rum", American Journal of Pharmacy 33 (1861:289).
Maisch identified the leaf in the herbarium at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, collected in St Croix, "by the late Dr, Griffith", which was identified as Myrcia acris, now transferred to the genus Pimenta; Maisch added "But it is very probable that various species are made use of for the same purpose."
A drop of oil of cloves is added to two parts bay oil and one part pimento oil in one of two recipes for bay rum in "Practical notes and formulæ", The Chemist & Druggist, 34 (27 April 1889:576); the aromatics are steeped in alcohol and as a last step an equal part of "good rum" is added.
Alice M. Coats, Garden Shrubs and their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Laurus".
"That it is little known in Europe may also be judged from the fact that it is not even mentioned in Piesse's Art of Perfumery" (Maisch 1861); George William Septimus Piesse, The Art of Perfumery (1857).
A recipe for bay rum from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy was included in The Pharmaceutical Journal (Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain) 23 February 1878:679.
Stills in the Hills, une exposition en 2012 à la White River Valley Museum, Auburn, Washington.
MOULTON, H. "A Case of Blindness from Drinking Bay Rum, Compared with the Reported Cases due to Methyl Alcohol and to Essence of Jamaica Ginger, etc.", The Journal of the American Medical Association, 37.22 (1901: 1447-1451).

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[1] (en)stjohnbayrum.com.

[2] « Bay rum Benjamins », Senteur des Caraïbes (consulté le 9 mai 2013).

[3] John M. Maisch (Philadelphia), "On the Origin of Bay Rum", American Journal of Pharmacy 33 (1861:289).

[4] Maisch identified the leaf in the herbarium at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, collected in St Croix, "by the late Dr, Griffith", which was identified as Myrcia acris, now transferred to the genus Pimenta; Maisch added "But it is very probable that various species are made use of for the same purpose."

[5] A drop of oil of cloves is added to two parts bay oil and one part pimento oil in one of two recipes for bay rum in "Practical notes and formulæ", The Chemist & Druggist, 34 (27 April 1889:576); the aromatics are steeped in alcohol and as a last step an equal part of "good rum" is added.

[6] Alice M. Coats, Garden Shrubs and their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Laurus".

[7] "That it is little known in Europe may also be judged from the fact that it is not even mentioned in Piesse's Art of Perfumery" (Maisch 1861); George William Septimus Piesse, The Art of Perfumery (1857).

[8] A recipe for bay rum from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy was included in The Pharmaceutical Journal (Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain) 23 February 1878:679.

[9] Stills in the Hills, une exposition en 2012 à la White River Valley Museum, Auburn, Washington.

[10] MOULTON, H. "A Case of Blindness from Drinking Bay Rum, Compared with the Reported Cases due to Methyl Alcohol and to Essence of Jamaica Ginger, etc.", The Journal of the American Medical Association, 37.22 (1901: 1447-1451).