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days it should be completely dissolved, form- 40 gallons white Bordeaux wine; 1 gallon ing a thick fluid mass . Squeeze it through a muscat wine; + gallon old cognac brandy; linen cloth and put it into a bottle, adding 4 and 4 gallons syrup made of 25 pounds sugar or 5 per cent. of 95 per cent. alcohol to make and 2 gallons water. (See No. 715). In this it keep.

For 40 gallons wine to be fined, receipt a little tincture of vanilla, or a small take 1 wine-glassful of dissolved isinglass, add bottle of bouquet venatique, may be used ina little wine and a pinch of salt, and beat to a stead of the muscat wine. froth with a whisk, adding by degrees suffi- omitted altogether if aroma is not desired. They may be cient wine to make the mixture up to gallon. When foaming, pour it slowly into the California wine; 13 gallons white Bordeaux

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