1903 The Complete Buffet Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Drinks by V.B. Lewis

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The Complete Buffet Guide, or

BITTERS.

ORANGE BITTERS. 1Yf lb. freshly dried orange peel. 1 Yf o~. coriander seeds.

1;4 drachm carraway seeds. 1Yf drachm cardamom seeds. 6 pts. rectified spirits (60 0. P.). 3 oz. burned sugar. 7 pints syrup. Water, sufficient to make up two gallons.

Steep the seeds and peel in the spirit for fourteen or twenty days, when it must be drained off and re– placed by water; which after two days drain off and replaced by a second quantity of water. Let the three tinctures thus obtained be mixed together, and first the coloring and then the syrup be added. This, if allowed to remain a short time undisturbed, will · become bright ; or if wanted for immediate use, may be filtered through fine linen.

WORMWOOD BITTERS.

2 drops oil of lemon. 2 drops oil of carraway. . 2 drops oil of absinthe. 2 oz. extract of licorice. ~ oz. extract of ch amomile. 3 pints reGtified spirit (60 0. P.). 3 pints syrup. Water enough to make two gallons.