1919 Home made beverages

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Non-Alcoholic

Beverages

place in a percolator; add enough water to obtain 32 fl.oz. of extract; add 2 oz. of alcohol to preserve, or more alcohol if intended to keep a long time. 3. — For Dispensing. — Ground Java coffee, 8 oz.; sliced vanilla bean, 2 drams; diluted alcohol, q. s. 4. — Ground roasted coffee, 2 to 8 oz.; cinnamon, bruised, 60 gr.; vanilla, sliced, 60 gr.; diluted alcohol, q. s. Moisten the ingredients with some of the liquid and pack in percolator. Put in enough diluted alcohol to leave a stratum above it. Macerate for forty-eight hours, covered; percolate, pour on enough diluted alcohol until 32 fl.oz. of extract is obtained. 5. — From 1 part of ground coffee and the necessary- quantity of boiling water make a decoction that after nitration consists of J^ part by weight of fluid. This with the addition of 0.2 part sugar is evaporated in a shallow dish at a temperature of at the highest 140° F. to such an extent that a sample dropped on a glass plate on cooling becomes a solid mass. The fluid is then poured into molds that give the solidified pieces the form of tablets and these are wrapped in tinfoil or paraffined paper. 6. — Mocha coffee, % lb.; Java coffee, J^ lb.; hot water, sufficient to make 2 qt. Grind the coffee to a moderately fine powder. Moisten with the hot water and pack in a glass funnel or preferably in a cylindrical percolator and percolate by pouring on boiling water in divided portions, until two quarts of percolate are obtained. 7. — Mocha coffee, 4 parts; "Old Government Java" coffee, 8 parts; Rio coffee, 4 parts; glycerine, 3 parts ; water, enough. The coffee should be freshly roasted and reduced to a moderately fine powder. Put into a vessel provided with a tightly fitting cover, and pour over it 10 parts of boiling water to which the glycerine has been added. Put on the cover and close tightly. Now wrap the vessel in a blanket or felt, to preserve the heat as long as possible, and set away in a warm place one hour and a half. At the expiration of this time pack into a per- 8