1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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bark, aod 4 pounds bitter orange-peel, the wLv,le broken together until the flavour is drawn out, and while hot strain it into other liquor, and stop tight 2 hours. Then add | pound sweet oil cut up clear in alcohol, and pour it into your barrel, and draw and pour back until well mixed, and in 3 days it will he fit for use. Colour.

No. 295. Another Cognac Brandy.

No. 3.

Take 35 gallons pure rectified whiskey, from 10 to 15 degrees above proof, and add 7^ gallons pure oognac brandy, 1| drachms cognac-oil cut in alcohol, 1| ounce oenanthic acid, 1^ ounce acetic acid, 2J ounces tincture of kino, 3 half-pints syrup, and mix it thoroughly, and colour it to your fancy. No. 296. Another Cognac Brandy. No. 4. Take 5 gallons pure sweet liquor, \ gallon pure cognac brandy imported, 2i pounds bruised raisins, \ ounce acetic acid, 2 pounds loaf sugar, 1 ounce tincture of catechu, and mix. Manage as before.

No. 297. Imitation of French Brandy.

No. 1.

Take 32 gallons pure spirits. Then take \ gal- lon dried peaches hoiked brown, (not burned,) beat them to powder, and put them to your pure spirits in the barrel. Then take f pound crude or red tartar,