1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

MANUFACTURE OF LOW PROOF SPIRIT.

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mean origin or rather it is indebted to a barrel of whiskey for its existence ; and, on the other hand, persons of intelligence reject high colored liquors, as the excess of coloring favors the notion that the spirit is an imitation. And thus between the two extremes of ignorance, the operator will be guided by a sense of common discretion. Under the present improved mode of manufacturing spirits, burnt sugar alone is unsuited for brandy. As all good imitations are not of a brown color, rather of a purplish brown, made by the addition of red ; for this, use cochineal for the finest, and tincture of sanders wood for the common (see directions for preparing this tincture) ; for the third, use red beets. The two last are used in domestic brandies.

OTARD BRANDY.

one hundred gallons :

Clean spirit,

honey, six gal-

lons, dissolved in two of water ;

catechu, five ounces ;

Jamaica

rum, seven

acetic

five

gallons ;

ether,

ounces ; half a glass of spirit of orange peel (see directions for making these spirituous essences) ; and four ounces of spirits of orr?s root. Color this pale by the addition of one and a half pints of sugar coloring, and half a pint of tincture of cochineal. See directions for preparing all of the tinctures for