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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 acid remarkably well. (See No. 1444.) sweet almonds, 2 ounces powdered gum-ara- The high wine, or rectified spirit, distilled bic, and 9 ounces water; then dissolve 1 pound and rectified in the United States, and often white sugar by a gentle heat, strain, and sold as French pure spirit, is free from all when cool, add the whites of 2 eggs. It deleterious substances, and nearly scentless. should be put up in small bottles, well corked, Its strength is usually from 84 to 95 per cent. in a cool place. This is not only an excellent imitation and substitute for cream syrup, but will keep well for a considerable time. (See Nos. 53, &c.) 1436. Proof Spirit contains 524 per cent. by volume of pure alcohol; has a speciño gravity of .920 at 60° Fahr.; and is no more than a mixture of 49 parts by weight pure alcohol with 51 parts water. This is the strength of the proof spirit usually employed by perfumers, and for medicinal purposes; but by law (see No. 58), proof spirit is equal parts by volume of absolute alcohol and distilled water, having a specific gravity of .933. 1437.

Dilute Alcohol. Alcohol dilutum (U. S. Ph.) consists of equal measures of officinal alcohol and water; it contains 39 per cent. by weight, or 46.33 per cent. by volume, of pure or absolute alcohol, and has a specific gravity of .941, equal to 19° of Baumé's light hydrometer.