Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Alcohol

21 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Imitation Orgeat Syrup

Cream vanilla cream, add about a table-spoonful of syrup, 1 pint; vanilla syrup, 1 pint; oil of fluid extract of vanilla…

Orange-Flower Syrup

Add to 1 gallon simple syrup 1/2 ounce extract of orange flowers.

Coffee Syrup

Coffee, roasted, 1/2 pound; boiling water, 1 gallon. Enough is filtered to make 1/2 gallon of the infusion, to which add granulated sugar…

Nectar Syrup (Strawberry syrup pint Madeira)

Strawberry syrup, pint; Madeira wine, 1 ounce; orgeat syrup, pint. Mix.

Vanilla Cream Syrup

Fluid extract of vanilla, 1 ounce; simple syrup, 3 pints; cream (or condensed milk), 1 pint. May be colored with carmine.

Nectar Cream Syrup

This is a mixture of 3 parts vanilla syrup, 1 part pineapple syrup, 1 part lemon syrup, and 1 part simple cream syrup. Alcohol Alcohol is a…

Sherbet Syrup

Vanilla syrup, 3 pints; pineapple syrup, 1 pint; lemon syrup, 1 pint. Mix.

Ambrosia Syrup

Raspberry and various other substances. Boils at 1720, syrup, 2 pints; vanilla syrup, 2 pints; Hock wine, 4 ounces. Mix.

Hock and Claret Syrup

or claret wine, 1 pint; simple syrup, 2 Mix. Hock pints.

Cream Syrups

These are prepared by mixing highly flavored syrups with fresh cream. As this latter does not keep and in a vacuum at 56° Fahr.; curdles…

Simple Cream Syrup

Mix together thoroughly 1 pound powdered sugar with 1 pint fresh cream. Keep it in pint bottles for use.

Taylor's Cream Syrup

Fresh cream, 1/2 pint; fresh milk, 1/2 pint; powdered sugar, 1 pound. Mix by shaking, and keep in a cool place. The addition of a few…

Hubbell's Cream Syrup

This allow it to rise to the temperature of boiling is prepared with 14 pounds sugar to 1 pint of water, alcohol may be obtained of a…

Cream Syrup

Take of fresh that can be received by ordinary distillation. cream, 1 pint; fresh milk, 1 pint; fine pow- At this stage it contains 11 per…

Imitation Cream Syrup

Make an emulsion with 3 fluid ounces fresh oil of foreign substances. This alcohol withstands the tests of nitrate of silver and sulphuric…

Alcohol

Officinal alcohol (U. S. Ph.) contains 85 per cent. by weight, or 89 per cent. by volume, of…

Stronger Alcohol

Alcohol fortius S. Ph.) has 92 per cent. by weight, or perfumer; pyroxyline (gum cotton), by the ( U. S. Ph.) has 92 per cent. by weight…

Amylic Alcohol

A peculiar poses. oily, nearly colorless acrid liquid, known also Absolute Alcohol. Take 1 gallon of the 1442. Chemical Method of Procuring…

Absolute Alcohol

To procure into small fragments, mix with the alcohol in imperial pint; lime, 18 ounces; break the lime absolute or anhydrous alcohol, take…

To Test the Purity of Alcohol

The presence of water may be detected by its specific gravity. Fusel cil may be de nitrate of silver to the alcohol. Dissolve 10 tected by…

To Filter Alcohol

The following method of filtering alcohol, or its solutions, is said to be very satisfactory, and is used extensively in North Germany…

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