1919 Home made beverages

— Non-A Icoholic

Beverages

nesium carbonate or purified talcum, 1 av.oz. Mix the first four ingredients and make 16 fl.oz. of tincture with the alcohol and water by percolation. Dissolve the oil of lemon in a small quantity of alcohol, rub with mag- nesia or talcum, add gradually with constant trituration the tincture and filter. The extract may be fortified by adding 4 av.oz. of powdered grains of paradise to the ginger, etc., of the above before extraction with alcohol and water. 4. — Capsicum, coarse powder, 8 oz.; water, 6 pt.; essence of ginger, 8 fl.oz.; diluted alcohol, 7 fl.oz.; vanilla extract, 2 fl.oz.; oil of lemon, 20 drops; caramel, 1 fl.oz. Boil the capsicum with water for 3 hours, occasionally re- placing the water lost by evaporation, filter, concentrate the filtrate on a hot-water bath to the consistency of a thin extract, add the remaining ingredients and filter. 5. — Jamaica ginger, ground, 12 oz.; lemon peel, fresh, cut fine, 2 oz.; capsicum, powder, 1 oz.; calcined mag- nesia, 1 oz.; alcohol and water, of each sufficient. Ex- tract the mixed ginger and capsicum by percolation so as to obtain 16 fLoz. of water, set the mixture aside for 24 hours, shaking vigorously from time to time, then filter and pass through the filter enough of a mixture of 2 volumes of alcohol and 1 of water to make the filtrate measure 32 fl.oz. In the latter macerate the lemon peel for 7 days and again filter. 6. — To be used in the proportion of 4 oz. of extract to 1 gal. of syrup; Jamaica ginger, in fine powder, 8 lb.; capsicum, in fine powder, 6 oz.; alcohol, a sufficient quantity. Mix the powders intimately, moisten them with a sufficient quantity of alcohol and set aside for 4 hours. Pack in a cylindrical percolator and percolate with alcohol until 10 pt. of percolate have resulted. Place the percolate in a bottle of the capacity of 16 pt. and add to it 2 fl.dr. of oleoresin of ginger; shake, add 2J^ lb. of finely powdered pumice stone and agitate thoroughly at intervals of one-half hour for 12 hours. Then add 14 pints of water in quantities of 1 pt. at each addition, shaking briskly meanwhile. This part of the operation 70