seasoning

mauste

maustaminen puhekieltä Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as a condiment, herb or spice.
A coat of burnt soot inside a cooking vessel, which has formed over repeated use, and which renders the surface non sticking.
puhekieltä An alcoholic intoxication.

Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”