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Lime Juice and Glycerine
Lime (or lemon) juice, 1/2 pint. Heat in a porcelain mortar to near the boiling point, and add gradually rose water, elder-flower water, and rectified spirit, of each 2 ounces.
Agitate the whole well together. After 24 hours' repose, decant or filter through calico or musiin, then add pure glycerine, 21 ounces; oil of lemons, 1/21 drachm. Again agitate them together for some time, and by careful manipulation you will have a somewhat anilky liquid but it should be quite free from any coarse floating matter or sediment.