Saloop stall in Smithfield market, London, Regency era

A Chinese woman drinks a bowl of saloop or salep at a stall in Smithfield market. A vendor in hat, coat and boots sits next to a saloop tank with spigot at a table with bowls and cups. Saloop was a hot or cold beverage made from Orchis macula, sugar and milk. It was sold from midnight to dawn as a hangover cure. The most famous shop was Reid's Coffee Shop on Fleet Street, 1719 to 1833. Smithfield bargains and Smithfield saloop. Copperplate engraving drawn from life and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839

1839 Beverage Capitalism Cups Customer Destitute Francis Douce John Bowyer Nichols John Thomas Smith Lower Classes Orchid Spigot Stall The Cries Of London Tradesmen Vagabondiana 2 Working Class Working Poor

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