1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

FLAVORING WIXES, LIQUORS, AND CORDIALS.

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before they are quite ripe, dried in the shade, and covered with a coat of drying oil, and then tied in bundles which are surrounded with sheet-lead or in- closed in small metallic boxes and sent to market. Several varieties of vanilla exist in commerce. The most valuable consists of cylindrical, somewhat flat- tened pods, six or eight inches long, three or four lines thick, nearly, straight, narrowing towards the extremities, but at the base shining and dark brown, externally wrinkled, longitudinally soft and flexible, and containing within their tough shell a soft black pulp, in which numerous minute black glossy seeds are embedded. It has a peculiar, strong, agreeable odor, and a warm, aromatic, sweetish taste ; the iut^-^ but the odor i

BLACK MUSTARD SEED.