1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

V.

DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING

THE MOST CHOICE LIQUOBS

IN QUANTITIES OF FIVE GALLONS.

FOB bars, hotels, wine-cellars, and private use, the following directions will insure a saving of from forty to two hundred and fifty per cent, per gallon ; and the most critical examination will scarcely detect the imitation from the genuine, a chemical test alone being able to indicate the differ- ence of the one from the other. The consumer finds one strong inducement, aside from the economical production of this liquor, for its use, viz. he is familiar with its composition, which is not the case in relation to foreign liquors. Aside from the manufacturer, who can say whether the ends used to obtain thft spirit were prejudicial to health or not ? It must be presumed that the incen- tive to exertion, on the part of the manufacturer, is