1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

IMITATION OF JAMAICA BUM.

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CHERRY BRANDY (CHEAP).

Corn whiskey, twenty gallons ;

water, seventeen

gallons ; loaf sugar, twenty-five to fifty pounds ; tincture of grains of paradise, one and a half gallons ; pellitory, one pint ; five ounces of ground mustard, one-half ounce of sulphuric acid ; cloves, one-half ounce, bruised ; cassia, one ounce ; one-half pound bruised bitter almonds. Color with six red beets,

and one-half pint of burnt sugar coloring.

If

sliced,

the acid in either of the above is not clearly percep- tible to the palate, it should be added until it is.

RUM.

The best is Jamaica rum. This rum is indebted to the mode of its distillation for its superiority, which consists in conducting the process of distillation very slowly.

IMITATION OF JAMAICA RUM.

Clean proof spirit,

100 gallons ;

sugar refined,

dissolved in five gallons water, sixty pounds ;

pale

sulphuric acid, two ounces ;

Jamai-

ale, five gallons ;

ca rum, eight to twelve gallons ;

acetic ether, eight

; burnt sugar, one and a half pints ;

ounces

tincture

of sanders, half a pint.

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