1860 A Treatise on the Manufacture , Imitation, Adulteration and Reduction of Foreign Wines, Brandies, .

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the gin-drinkers too much corrupted to relish so pure a beverage." Gin has thus far proved more difficult to imi– tate than any of the other liquors, it being almost impossible to impart the exact flavor of the trite IIollands gin to any of its imitations. The author of this work has, however, been so fortunate as to succeed in making an imitation out of pure spirits, which has been pronounced by good judges a genuine article. There is more care required in combining the proper quantities of the different ingredients, in n1aking imitations of Hollands gin, than in the imitations of wines and brandies, so as to insure the peculiar flavor, creaminess, and smooth– ness of the real article. The reader will find the imitations of gin made in accordance with the formuloo hereafter given superior to most of the gins furnished to dealers, they being either too much, reduced, or, if imitations, too liigli7y flavored-it being necessary, in securing a good imitation, to guard against both extremes.