Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

Cider

18 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

To Make Peruvian Bitters

tree as long as the wind and frosty nights ples should be allowed to hang on the Take 8 ounces red…

Brandy Bitters

Grind to coarse powder 3 pounds gentian root, 2 pounds dry orange peel, 1 pound cardamom seeds, 2 ounces days in 1 gallon brandy, 8 gallons…

Nonpareil Bitters

Grind to coarse powder 2 ounces Peruvian bark, ounce sweet orange peel, ounce bitter orange peel, 25 grains cinnamon, 25 grains cloves, 25…

To Press the Apples

The pro- Infuse ten days in 2 gallons 65 per cent. alco- cess of pressing is simple, but requires some skill. 4 boards about 6 inches wide…

Spanish Bitters

Grind to coarse nailed together in a square, the size it is powder 5 ounces polypody, 6 ounces calamus desired to make the cheese, say from…

Aromatic Bitters

Macerate 24 pounds ground dried small orange apples, pound ground dried orange peel, 2 ounces ground dried calamus root, 2 ounces ground…

Stomach Bitters

Grind to a coarse powder pound cardamom seeds, pound nutmegs, pound grains of Paradise, straw is then turned on it, and a little pulp…

Hamburg Bitters

Grind to a let it pass through a hair-sieve into a large coarse powder 2 ounces agaric, 5 ounces cin- open vessel, that will hold as much…

Bitters made with Essences

corners of the cheese are cut off with a hay 40 gallons proof spirit, 1 drachm oil of anise, knife and the pomace laid on the top. The 1…

Bitter Filter

A fine bitter filter may be made according to fig. 5, No. 17.

Orange Bitters

Macerate 6 pounds orange peel for 24 hours with 1 gallon water, cut the yellow part of the peel from off the white, and chop it fine…

To Preserve Cider

Strictly speaking, we suppose the sweet juice of the apple is not cider, any more than the sweet bung it up tight. The most perfect plan…

To Make Good Fermented Cider

To make good fermented cider that will keep a year or more without turning too sour to be used for anything but vinegar, is not a difficult…

To Prepare Casks for Cider

Cider should never be put into new casks without previously scalding them with water containing salt, or with water in which pomace has…

Canned Cider

Cider may be preserved sweet for years, by putting it up in air-tight cans after the manner of preserving.

To Cleanse Cider Barrels

Take lime water and a trace chain and put them in the barrel through the bung-hole, first securperature at which the fermentation is con…

To Clarify and Improve Cider

Cider should be stored in a cool place, and should not be drunk before it becomes suffiliquor acquires that peculiar and unwhole- ciently…

To Bottle Cider

Preparatory to bottling cider it should be examined to see the proper fermentation in these close vessels, which may be best effected in a…

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