1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

CHERRY BRANDY.

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and then add sulphuric ether, one ounce ;

acetio

days,

ether, three ounces ;

oil of lemon, fifty drops ;

dis-

solve in the ether, one grain of ambergris well rubbed up in sugar, and the whole well mixed and colored as for other brandies. But the new mode consists of coloring this brandy yellow, with a half ounce, or more if the color is desired of a deeper yellow, with gamboge. If the whiskey used for this purpose, should be bright or clear of coloring, the brandy will be of a fine yellow color, but if the whiskey should be colored, as it usually is, the tincture of red san- ders wood and burnt sugar should be added to bring the spirit to the usual color of the common brandies, allowing the red color to predominate.

APPLE BRANDY.

Common rectified whiskey, forty gallons ;

tincture

sulphuric acid, one and

Df strong tea, half a gallon ;

a half ounces ;

acetic ether, five ounces, and ninety

Color

drops oil of wintergreen dissolved in ether.

to a light brown with burnt sugar.

CHERRY BRANDY.

tincture of

Rectified whiskey, twenty gallons ;

grains of paradise, one gallon ; powdered catechu, six ounces; water, sixteen gallons; refined sugar