Mint Julep

R. Gerald Alvey's recipe for a mint julep:
"Cold and frosty to the touch, the mint julep is a delicious concoction traditionally composed of mint, sugar, bourbon, and water. A genuine mint julep must be served in a frosted silver julep cup – originally coin silver, about four inches tall and three inches in diameter – and all the ingredients must be native to Kentucky: the water must be cold and fresh from a limestone spring; the Bourbon at least eight year old Kentucky straight; and the mint, picked after the most recent dawn, when the dew is still fresh on its leaves." Courtesy of Hopewell Museum.