1868 The complete Practical Distiller

ELDER JUICE,

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PROCESS FOR MAKING BRANDY SHRUB. — Take from 75 to 80 gallons of brandy, 8 or 10 gallons of lemon-juice, 8 gallons of orange-juice, 4 pounds of thin rind of fresh lemon-peel, and 2 pounds of orange-peel, fresh, (both pared as thin as may be,) and add them to the brandy the first thing; with 4 ounces of terra-japoniea, 1 hundred- weight of loaf-sugar or clayed sugar, dissolved in part of the water used for making up, added with the above in- gredients to the brandy, &c. Fill up with good clear water, set the cask on end, with a cock near the bottom, and let it stand till fine. Shrub may be made in a similar manner with whisky, apple brandy, peach brandy, &c., with similar ingredients in the before-mentioned proportions. The quantity can be increased or reduced to suit the operator, by duly pro- portioning the ingredients to the quantity of spirits em- ployed. This is done in the following way :

ELDER JUICE.

To make this article, you must let your berries be fully ripe, and all the stalks (which are numerous) be clean picked from them. Then, if you have a press for drawing all the juice from them, have ready four hair- cloths somewhat broader than the press, and put one u