1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

CONCEALING ODOR OF GRAIN OIL.

90

OLD RYE WHISKEY.

Rectified whiskey, thirty-two gallons ; of grains of paradise, three quarts ;

tincture

decoction of

strong tea, water, seven quarts; make a pint of common wheat flour into a smooth paste with water, add this to the barrel ; then add ten drops oil of wintergreen, dissolved in two ounces of alcohol. This whiskey should have but a slight color, partaking of a reddish derived from sanders wood. The most convenient mode of preparing the tinc- ture of sanders wood is to infuse the wood in a pul verised state in clear whiskey* if the tincture should appear heavy or cloudy, it will have to be filtered through sand ; but if the sanders wood contains no impurities, and the spirit that is used for digesting it is bright and clean, the cloudiness alluded to will be prevented. The burnt sugar should be strained before using. two quarts ;.

SCOTCH WHISKEY.

Rectified whiskey, thirty-nine gallons ;

tincture

of grains of paradise, half gallon ;

powdered catechu,

Color with burnt sugar, and add

three ounces.

thirty drops creasote*