1857 The Bordeaux wine and liquor dealers' guide

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Take 2 lbs. go.od old juniper berries, digest the same in one gallon high-proof spirits for a week or ten days; then express the liquor and filter through blotting paper ; add the liquor to the 40 ge.llons of spirits as above, and mix thoroughly. FORMULA No. 2.~Gin. To 40 galls. pure spirits, 2 to 4 o. p., add: 5 do. gin as before. Take 2 lbs. juniper berries, i oz. sweet fennel seed, 2 oz. spirits of nitre, 1 lb. loaf-sugar, l gallon high proof spirits; mix thoroughly, let it stand one week, then filter, and add as in For– mula No 1. Foo:uu No. 8.-om. To 40 galls. pure spirits add : S do. gin. Take l gill pure oil turpentine,* l oz. oil juniper, 9 each, lemons and oranges sliced, 1 lb. loaf-sugar. Put these ingredients in i a gallon high-proof spi- • The oil ofturpentine for this use, should be of the best quality, and notthat usually vended for painting, which contains~ and fl.xed oil&

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