1868 The complete Practical Distiller

FRENCH NOYAU.

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ounce, (Jissolved in a pint of spirits of wine; half a pound of dried lemon, and 4 ounces of orange-peel; 6 or 7 pounds of loaf-sugar. Make up, as before, with cleaU; nice water.

CINNAMON CORDIAL

This very agreeable compound is useful in families, being often sufficient to arrest sickness at the stomach, &c. &c. It is thus made : — Take 1 drachm of oil of cas- sia, dissolved with sugar and spirits of wine; IJ gallon of spirits; cardamom-seed, husked, 1 ounce; orange and lemon-peel, dried, of each 1 ounce. Fine with half a pint of alum- water ; sweeten to your taste with loaf-sugar, not exceeding 2 pounds, and make up 2 gallons measure with the water you dissolve the sugar in. This cordial can be coloured, if desired, with burnt-sugar.

FRENCH NOYAU.

Take of fine French brandy IJ gallon; 6 ounces of the best fresh prunes ; 2 ounces of celery ; 3 ounces of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, and peaches, and 1 ounce of bitter almonds, all gently bruised ; essence of orange-peel and lemon-peel, of each half a drachm, dis- solved in spirits of wine ; half a pound of loaf-sugar. Let