Abstract: Beverage preparing and dispensing apparatus, in which powdered ingredients are pre-placed on the bottom of a drinking vessel (14). The feed conduit (32,34) through which liquid is dispensed is caused to move as the liquid is dispensed, so as to agitate the ingredient and facilitate their dissolution and/or suspension in the liquid. Thus, a moving jet of liquid (68,69') is caused to sweep over the bottom of the drinking vessel in a substantially circular path, without leaving dead zones in which the ingredients are unaffected by the jet and thus might remain undissolved on the bottom of the vessel.