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

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FILTRATION.

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be provided as many pnils as there arc filterers in use;for each pail there must be apportioned half of a sheet of blot ting paper, prepared as^follows: rub each piece of paper in your hands until it becomes smooth and pliant, as near to cloth as possible; then place it in the pail tvith a little water constantly beating it and rubbing it together with the hands until it comes to the consistency of a soft or pulpy matter; afterward more water should be added, continuing the process of beating up the pulpy substance similar to the usual mode of beating up eggs; the pail must then be filled,and the contents thrown into the filterer. When the water has run through,fill up again so as to keep the filterer full, and when the water runs dear let the whole of the water pass through, and the bag is prepared to filter. Place a fiv-egallon demijohn under the filterer, vrith funnel, fiU another demijohn with the liquor to be