1868 The complete Practical Distiller

SIMPLE LAVENDER WATER.

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ORANGE WINE.

This delightful beverage is prepared in the following manner : — Take 12 oranges, and pare them very thin strain the juice, so that none of the seeds go in with it. Then take 6 pounds of loaf-sugar, and the whites of 2 eggs, well beaten; put these into 3 gallons of spring- water, and let it gently boil for half an hour. As the scum rises, take it oflF; then add the orange-juice and rind. Three or four spoonfuls of yeast must also be put in/ and let it stand in a pan or pail for four or five days then put it into the cask, and let it stand for three or four weeks, but do not stop it close for the first week. When nearly fine, draw it off into another cask, and add to it a quart of white wine and a little Cognac brandy. Stop it close, and in a month or six weeks it will be in fine condition, ready for use.

SIMPLE LAVENDER WATER.

For many years this has been a great favourite ; it is easily made in the following way : — Take 14 pounds of lavender-flowers; 10^^ gallons of rectified spirits of wine; and 1 gallon of water. Draw off 10 gallons with a gentle fire, or, which is much better, the sand-bath.