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Blackberry Brandy (Ounce each of cinnamon cloves)

+ ounce each of cinnamon, cloves, and mace, 1 drachm cardamom. Grind to a coarse powder; add to 16 pounds of blackberries, mashed, and 5 gallons of 95 per cent. alcohol. Macerate for two weeks; press it; then add 10 pounds of noyau, 6 drachms essence of rose. Dis- of sugar, dissolved in 30 gallons of water. solve the above in 1/2 gallon 95 per cent. alco- Filter. hol, and add 4 spoonfuls of magnesia, 1 gal- 784. Cherry Brandy. Mash 16 pounds lon orange flower water, pound cinnamon of black cherries with their stones; 5 gal- (bruised) infused in gallon water, pound lons 95 per cent. alcohol. Macerate for two cloves (bruised), infused in + gallon of water, weeks ; press it; then add 10 pounds of sugar, 4 drachms mace infused in alcohol, 2 pounds dissolved in 3§ gallons of water. Filter. dissolved in 30 gallons of water. Filter. orris root (powdered) infused in 2 gallons 95 per cent. alcohol for 15 days. Mix 41 gallons 80 per cent. alcohol, 90 gallons syrup 25 degrees Baumé, and add 4 gallons perfumed spirits, as described above. Stir and filter as already directed.

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