1863 The manufacture of liquors, wines, and cordials

NEW YORK GIN

CHEAP.

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is spirit of about the strength of common proof spi- rit, containing, say from forty-three to forty-nine per cent, of alcohol.

NEW- YORK GIN.

Clean whiskey, one hundred gallons ,

oil of juni-

per, two ounces, dissolved in three ounces of alco- hol ; a few drops of turpentine are sometimes added.

ROSE GIN.

Clean whiskey, one hundred gallons ; two ounces oil of juniper, dissolved in two ounces of alcohol ; nitric ether, twelve ounces.

NEW YORK GIN

CHEAP.

Clean whiskey, sixty gallons ;

water, forty gal-

; tincture grains of paradise, two gallons ;

lons

tinc-

ture of mustard, half a gallon (tincture of mustard is made by digesting one pound of ground mustard in half a gallon of whiskey, for thirty-six hours); one ounce of sulphuric acid ; two ounces oil of juniper, dissolved in half a pint of alcohol ; nitric ether, six ounces ;' fine this by the addition of four ounces of powdered alum. Gin Cordial. Of the oil of bitter almonds, sul-