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Wild Cherry Bitters

Take of 815. To Make French Cognac Bitters. Take 14 pounds each red Peruvian wild cherry bark, 4 pounds; squaw vine bark, calisaya bark, bitter orange peel, and (Partridge berry), 1 pound; Juniper berries, Juniper berries, sweet orange peel; 2 ounces calamus root; 48 ounces. Pour boiling water over the above ounces cardamom seeds; 14 ounces each cin- and let it stand for 24 hours ; strain, and pour namon, cloves, and nutmegs; 4 ounces cara- again boiling water on the ingredients ; let way seed, and 3 pounds wild cherry bark. it macerate for 12 hours, then express and Pound all these ingredients to a coarse powder filter through paper, SO that the whole will and steep for 15 days in 45 gallons proof make 5 gallons, to which add of sugar, 31 add of sugar, 3 spirit (or 60 gallons spirit 25 below proof), pounds; molasses, 1½ gallons; tincture of peach kernels, 6 ounces tincture of prickly ash berries, 3 ounces; alcohol, 2 quarts.

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