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Orgeat Syrup

Take 10 pounds sweet almonds, 4 pounds bitter almonds; cover them with boiling hot water; let them stand till nearly cold, and peel them by pressing through your fingers; beat them in a stone or brass mortar to a very fine paste with some sugar, adding water slowly; press yrups for Soda or Minthrough a linen cloth, so as to get 5 gallons eral Waters. The following of a liquid resembling rich milk; dissolve in is a collection of well approved receipts for this liquid 80 pounds sugar; boil up once, flavoring mineral waters, selected principally and add 1 pint orange-flower water; then from the "Druggist's Circular and Chemical Gazette." Most of the syrups not made from strain.

Syrups order to produce a rich froth when the soda water is added.

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