1862 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon-Vivant's Companion 1$50.pdf

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KKCIPES FOR TEN GALLONS EACH,

4 ounces of cardamom. Macerate for 24 hours (see No. 5) with 3^ gallons of alcohol, 95 per cent., and 4 gallons of water; distil from the water 3l gallons of flavored spirit, and add 24 lbs. of sugar dissolved in 5 gallons of water; color green. (See No. 90.) Filter. * 362. "Vespetro. 8 ounces of angelica-seed. 4 do. Ceylon cipnamon. 1 do. mace. 40 lemons, the yellow rinds only. Macerate for 24 hours (see No. 6) with 3i gallons of alcohol, 95 per cent., and 4 gallons of water; distil from oflr the water 3^ gallons of flavored spirit, and add 24 lbs. of sugar dissolved in 5 gallons of water. Filter. (See No. 3.) 363. Vinegar, Raspberry. 30 lbs. of raspberries made to a puljj. *^2 gallons of wine or cider vinegar. Macerate for 8 days (see No. 5); press and strain.

364. Whiskey, Irish.*

3 gallons of genuine Irish whiskey. -7 » do. best pure spirit, mixed.

* "Without large distilleries these whiskeys—Irish and Scotch (see Scotch, Nos. 364-366)—cannot be manufacturedwith profit. It is a hum bug to make them with essences, aud a nuisauco as regards health. The best imitation is mixing in proportion to the price.