Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Cordials Or Liqueurs

31 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

Antiferments

Substances used as rapidly and as perfectly as possible by laboin small quantities for arresting fermentation rious and long continued…

Antiferments for Cider

Sulphite (not sulphate) of lime in fine powder, and as newly prepared as possible. Or, 2 parts sulphite of lime and 3 parts ground black…

To Induce Fermentation

If clear and transparent; but should this not fermentation does not begin within a reason- be the case, they may be fined with the whites…

To Make Anisette

To 30 gallons French proof spirit add 4 ounces essence of star anise dissolved in 95 per cent. alcohol, and 105 gallons syrup of 100 Baumé…

To Arrest Fermentation

Dip a strip of linen or cotton, an inch wide and seven inches long, into melted sulphur. Fasten a wire into the bung of a 60-gallon cask…

To Make Maraschino

Dissolve minutes and let it rest 4 or 5 days, then filter. in 14 gallons 95 per cent. alcohol, 1½ ounces Add 2 or 3 sheets of filtering…

Anisette

Put in a barrel 13 galof cloves, and 8 drops essence of cinnamon; add lons 95 per cent. alcohol. Dissolve 3½ ounces gallon orris root…

Superfine Maraschino (Ounces essence of noyau ounce)

4 ounces essence of noyau 1 ounce essence of rose; 1/2 ounce essence of neroli (genuine); 4 drachms receipt. 780. Anise Seed Cordial…

Malliorca d'Espagne (Gallons solve the essences)

40 gallons solve the essences in 2 gallons 95 per cent. alcohol. Mix, put into a barrel 41 gallons 85 55 per cent. alcohol, 5 ounces…

Maraschino (Ounces essence of dissolved)

14 ounces essence of dissolved in 95 per cent. alcohol, 1/2 drachm ether (to give the cordial age). Stir and filter.

Blackberry Brandy (To gallons blackberry juice)

To 10 gallons blackberry juice, and 25 gallons spirits 40 above proof, add 1 drachm each of oil of cloves and oil of cinnamon dissolved in…

Maraschino (Ounces essence dissolved)

3½ ounces essence dissolved in 6 gallons water. Dissolve the oils separately in pint 95 per cent. alcohol; mix both together, and use one…

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…

Peach Brandy

Mash 18 pounds of peaches, with their stones; macerate them for 24 hours with 40 gallons of 95 per cent . alcohol and 4 gallons water…

Peppermint Brandy

To 40 gallons proof spirit add 4 ounces essence of peppermint, dissolved in 95 per cent. alcohol. Color with 1/2 pound powder of turmeric…

Champion Anisette

Put into a barrel 30 gallons 85 per cent. alcohol. Add alcohol, 5 ounces essence of noyau, 2 drachms essence of rose. Dissolve the latter…

Caraway Cordial

Dissolve 6 drachms oil of caraway in 3 gallons 95 per cent. alcohol; add a syrup made of 42 pounds of sugar and 44 gallons of water. Filter.

Ratafia

This word is derived from (made as in last receipt); + gallon clove water (made as in last receipt); 1½ ounces mace infused in 95 per cent…

Absinthe by Distillation

This of noyau; pound cinnamon ground and is made in the same manner as in the former infused in gallon water; pound cloves receipt , with…

Malliorca d'Espagne (Charge of which will give)

Charge of which will give 26 gallons. Add 12 gallons alcohol, 18 pounds green anise seed, 5 gallons 82 per cent. spirit, 7 gallons coloring…

Superfine Maraschino (Charge Chartreuse Macerate)

Charge Chartreuse. Macerate 640 parts by weight, of the still with water-bath: Take 70 pounds each, of the fresh herb of sweet balm and the…

Note the following observations

I. Before distilling, add 4 pounds of peach flowers. II. Keep the fire at the same degree of heat, . Keep the fire at the same degree of…

Boitard's Anisette

Charge of the still, water-bath: 20 pounds green anise (washed in river water), 3 pounds star anise (being careful to break the stars…

Chauvet's Anisette

Charge of hyssop, 320 parts of fresh root of angelica, 160 of cannella, and 40 each of Spanish saffron and mace, in 10,000 parts of…

Fining with Alum for Cordials

solved in alcohol, is sufficient to clarify 20 gallons of cordial; add as directed above.

Filter Bags for Cordials

The parent are made of flannel, felt, Canton flannel, filter bags used for rendering cordials transthe still, water-bath: 20 pounds green…

To Make Angostura Bitters

Take 4 ounces gentian root; 10 ounces each snake-root, liquorice root, yellow bark, allspice, dandelion root, and Angostura bark; 6 ounces…

The Aroma of Cordials

It requires a great deal of experience to combine ounces caraway seed; 14 ounces cinnamon; different perfumes to produce any certain re…

Imitation Peach Brandy

Take quassia; 1½ ounces calamus; 1½ ounces + gallon honey dissolved in water; 3 gallons catechu (powdered); 1 ounce cardamom; 2 Macerate…

Stoughton Bitters

To 12 pounds dry orange peel, 3 pounds Virginia snakeroot, 1 pound American saffron, 16 pounds gentian root, add 1 pound red saunders…

Wild Cherry Bitters

Take of 815. To Make French Cognac Bitters. Take 14 pounds each red Peruvian wild cherry bark, 4 pounds; squaw vine bark, calisaya bark…

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