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Imitation Batavia Arrack (To gallons pale rum add ounces)

To 12 gallons pale rum add 2 ounces flowers of benzoin, 14 ounces balsam of tolu, 1 sliced pineapple. Digest with occasional agitation for a month; then add 1 pint raw milk.

Agitate well for 15 minutes, and rack in a week. A fine imitation. parent. The above is enough for 50 gallons.

The blackness which gin sometimes contracts by coming in contact with iron, may also be carried down by putting a solution of 2 ounces , isinglass and 1 quart skimmed milk into the spirit. When the color is very black, which will happen by merely an iron nail having fallen into the liquor, there is no remedy but to have the liquor distilled over again.