1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

149

ounce tartaric acid, 1 drachm orange-flower-water. Let it stand 20 days, draw off, and colour dark.

No. 305. Common Brandy.

Take 28 gallons rectified whiskey, add 3 gallons brandy, 1 ounce spirits of nitre dulc, 1 ounce tinc- ture of kino : mix, and let stand 24 hours. Good.

No. 306. Domestic Brandy.

Take 28 gallons rectified whiskey, pure, 2 gallons fourth-proof brandy, high-flavoured, 4 ounces tincture of kino, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 100 drops nitric acid, and a few pounds burnt raisins ; mix all together, and let it stand a few weeks, and draw off". (Eeady for use.) No. 3. Take 35 gallons pure spirits, 15 degrees above proof, 1 pound stone-lime, \ pound pulverized alum, 3 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 2 pounds liquorice- sticks, 1 pound winter-bark. Put them all into your cask together, stir, and mix them well ; let them stand 24 hours, then draw it off; take good care that you draw it off very clear. Put into a clean bar- rel. Then add 6 gallons fourth-proof French brandy, 2 pounds burnt raisins, IJ ounces mace, 1 ounce nut- meg, 1 quart peach-pits, 2 quarts red-oak sawdust it will be good in a few days, but the older the better. 13* No. 307. French Brandy.