1891 Cocktail Botthby's American Bar-Tender

VALUABLE SECRETS FOR LIQUOR DEALERS.

COLORING. 326. Place two pounds of crushed or lump sugar into a kettle that will hold four or five qunrts with half a tumbler of water. Boil until it is black, then take it off the fire, and cool it by pouring in cold water, stirring the while.

CORDIAL GIN. 327. Oil of bitter almonds, vitriol, turpentine and juniper, one-half drachm each ; kill the oils in spirits of wine ; fifteen gallons of clean, rectified proof spirits, to which add one drachm of coriander seeds, one drachm of pulverized orris root, one-half pint of elder-flower water, with ten pounds of sugar, and five gallons of water or liquor. 328. Before using corks be sure to have them clean. To drive a large cork into a small bottle neck, or a silver-topped patent cork, soak them thoroughly in boiling water, when they will become soft and pliable. A wooden cork– driver and mallet are used for driving them into bottles. When corking wine, always dip each cork separately in cognac just before driving it into the bottle CORKING.

CRiME DE MiNTHE. 329. Macerate for a couple of days, in one gallon of alcohol, four pounds of peppermint leaves and the skins of a dozen lemons. Strain, add three gallons of water, and sweeten to taste.

CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS. 330. Spirit of nutmeg, one drachm; peppermint water, eleven drachms; sul– phate of iron, five grains; magnesia, ten grains. Twice a day. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the acclll!tomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration that follows u sudden breaking off from the use of stimulat– ing drinks. Captain John Vine Hall, Commander of the famous steamship Great Eastern, was cured of habitual intoxication by using this recipe, and published the fact. for the benefit of humanity in the English press some years ago.