1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

RUM SHRUB.

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New Orleans rum is usually transparent ; the same proportions as for other liquors, using cochineal and burnt sugar.

RUM SHRUB.

Tartaric acid, five pounds ;

refined

sugar, Oil

hundred pounds ; put them into an eighty gallon cask, and add water ten gallons ; rurnage until the sugar and acid are dis- solved, then add proof rum, twenty gallons ; water, thirty-five gallons ; coloring, one quart fine with twelve eggs ; if twelve oranges, and five ounces of "bitter almonds be added, it will improve the flavor. Sugar, two hundred pounds, dissolved in fifty gal- Ions of water j add rum, thirty gallons ; oranges sliced, twelve ; two dozen sliced lemons ; cassia bruised, half an ounce ; cloves bruised, half an ounce ; bitter almonds, eight ounces ; tincture of the grains of paradise, and as much tartaric acid as may be necessary to give it the required acidity ; let it stand for a week, and fine with twenty eggs, shells yellows, and whites. oil of lemon, four drachms ; RUM SHRUB.