1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

MANUFACTURE OF LOW PROOF SPIRIT.

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Neutral spirit, five gallons ;

honey, four

JVo/'S.

orange flower water, one

water, three pints ;

pints ;

rose water, one-half pint ;

oil of juniper, fifty

pint ;

drops ; Dissolve the honey in the water, and the oil of juniper in the alcohol, and then mix the whole well together. When this gin is prepared on an extensive scale, the starch filtration, for giving a body to the spirit, can be resorted to, which will economize an immense quantity of honey or sugar. alcohol, two ounces.

FOR THE CONVERSION OF COMMON GIN INTO SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS.

Common gin, five gallons ;

strained honey, four

1.

sulphuric acid, two drachms ;

spirit of nut-

pints ;

megs, one pint ;

spirit of nitric ether, one ounce ;

Mix the honey and water,

clear water, three pints.

and add to the gin the sulphuric acid. The spirit of nutmegs is formed by digesting three ounces of bruised nutmegs in a pint of the gin for five days, then strain and add with the ether.

Common gin, thirty gallons ;

strained honey,

2.

clear water, two gallons ;

four and a half gallons ; phuric acid, one ounce ;

sul-

sweet spirits of nitre, eight

of nitric ether, three ounces ;

ounces

acetic

spirit

;

two ounces

; oil of wintergreen, ten drops,

ether,