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Cut and groimd; macerate for 10 days with 4 gallons ofalcohol, 95 2)er cent.,and 5 gallons of water(see No.5); distil from off the water 4 gallons of flavored spirit; then add a .syruj) made of 48 lbs. of sugar boiled for 3 hours with 3 gallons of water,filling up as it evaporates (see No. 1); skim, mix,and filter warm. -48 lbs. of sugar boiled for 3 hours with 3 gallons of water, filling up as it evaporates(see No. 7); skim; take from the fire, and add 8 ounces of violet flowers; let it nearly cool,and then add 4 gallons of alcohol,95 jjer cent.; strain and filter; color violet with tincture of indigo and cochineal. (See No. 94.) 240. Hydromel Vineux (Metheglin). (Wine Mead.) 16 lbs. ofhoney, dissolved in 9 gallons of water, heated to 84 degrees ofFahrenheit; add a pint of good brewers' yeast, mix this well and put it in a clean 10-g.allon keg,fiU. it to the bung and put it in a warm p>lace; during ferraen- tion keep the keg full with the balance ofthe liquor. Wlien the fermentation is over keejj it well bunged in a cool place. , ! i 241. - Hypocras a I'Angelique. (Angelica Hippocras.) 10 ounces of angelica-root. 1 ounce of nutmegs. Ground; macerate for 2 days with 9 gallons of claret wine (see No.5); then add 8 lbs. ofsugar in powder,.and ^ gallon of alcohol,95 per cent. Filter. (See No. 3.) 8 239. Hiiile de Violettes. (Violet oa.)