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

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369. "Wine, Bordeaiix, Red. 4 gallons of high-flavored red Bordeaux wine. 6 do. plain wine. Colored to the same shade with tinctui-e of alderherries.

37Q. "Wine, Bordeaux, White.

4 gallons of high-flavored white wine. 6 do. plain Avine. Color to the shade with coloring or tincture of saffron. (See Nos.88 and 91.) 871. Wine, Birch. 9 gallons of birch juice, draAvn in the month of Febru ary or March from the birch tree by boring holes in it; boil and skim,and cool it down to 100° Fahrenheit; then dissolve in it 9 lbs. of sugai', and add 2 ounces of lemon peels, finely cut; produce fermentation Avith 1 pint of gluten; put the ingredients in a keg, and keep it con stantly full till fermentation is over; filter or fine it (see from ISTos. 202 to 205), and put in another keg,in Avhich you have pjeviously burnt a strip of brimstone paper. (See FTo. 418.) 10 gallons of ligkt white wine, such as Sauterne or Rhine wine, Avell'clarified; add 3 lbs. of the whitest rock candy, dissolved in 1^ pint of Avater; to this syrup add 1 a gallon of wine alcohol(bon gofit), or any other perfectly free of flavor; when all this is perfectly clear fill it in a soda-water apparatus, and impregnate it Avith carbonic acid (for family use li drachm of citric acid,and 372. Wine, Champagne.