1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

145

ounce tincture of catechu, | cut, mix, and let stand 5 days.

rum, ^

pint syrup, |

ounce butyric acid ;

Calour with sugar-colouring.

No. 291. How to make Tincture of Catechu.

Take 3 ounces catechu, and macerate it in 1 quart diluted alcohol for 2 weeks, and filter through paper or strain through cloth.

No. 292. Another Jamaica Bum.

No. 3.

Take 32 gallons pure spirits; add 5 gallons pure imported Jamaica rum from the custom-house.

No. 293. Cognac Brandy.

No. 1.

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Take 31 gallons pure spirits, 4 pounds peach-pits, 1 pound winter-bark, 4 pounds bitter orange-peel; steep the peach-pits, winter-bark, and the orange- peel in a few gallons of pure spirits, until the flavour is drawn out; then pour it off, and put it into your pure spirits, and add as much pure imported cognac brandy as you wish.

No. 294. Another Cocjnac Brandy.

No. 2.

Take 31 gallons rectified whiskey ;

set the barre'

Then take of this whiskey 2 gallons

on the head.

and

pounds

1 pound winter-

boil 4

peach-pits,

2C