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To Imitate Champagne Cider
Cider will resemble champagne if you put a tea-spoonful carbonate of soda, 2 tea-spoonfuls fine sugar, and a table-spoonful brandy in a tumbler, and fill it up with sharp cider. dilute sulphuric acid after the lime water, and afterwards with boiling water. As a general water are sufficient. To restore the natural thing, however, the lime water and boiling taste of the wood, mash up in a mortar a handful of juniper berries and put them in the tainted cask, then pour over them several gallons boiling water, roll the cask violently, and set it first on one end, and then upon the other.