1862 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon-Vivant's Companion 1$50.pdf

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KECIPES FOE TEN GALLONB EAOU.

145. Eau d'AbriCOtS, (Apricot"Water.)

80 apricots, very ripe. Cut in small pieces, and boil them up -with 4 gallons of •white ■wine; strain, and add Ie gallon of white plain syrup (see No. 7) ; ^ an ounce of tincture of cinnamon, and 4J gallons of alcohol, 95 per cent.; filter after t'wo ■weeks. 22 ounces of worm-wood. Macerate 24 hours with 3 gallons of alcohol, 95 per cent., and SJ gallons of Avater (see No. 5). Distil from olf the water 3 gallons of flavoredspirit, and add 8 lbs. of sugar dissolved in 6^ gallons of water; filter, and color green ■with tincture of saffron and indigo. (See No. 90.) 147. Eau d'AniS. (Water of Anise-seed.) 1 ounce of oil of anise-seed dissolved in 3 gallons of alco hol, 95 per cent.; then add 8 lbs. of sugar dissolved in 6^ gallons of -water, and filter. (See No. 3.) 146. Eau d'Absinthe. (Abaintho "Water.)

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148. Eau d'Anis Compose. (Compound "Water of Anise- seed.)

1lb. of green anise-seed. T lb. of star anise-seed. 1lb. of angelica seed.

Grind; macerate for 24 hours "with 3 gallons of alcohol, 95 per cent., and 3^ gallons of water (see No. 5) ; distil from off the Aviter 3 gallons flavored spirit, and add 3 lbs. of sugar dissolved in 6^ gallons of water; then filter. (See No. 3.)