1888 The Police Gazette Bartenders Guide by Richard K Fox

POLIC:fu GAZETTE

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T INCTUR.ES, COLOR.I NGS, ESSENCES, AND SYRUPS FOR. USE IN COCKTAILS AND OTHER. FANCY DRINKS.

P lain Syrup. Take six and a half pour.ds or lon.f s ugar.

Half-gallon of water. The white of o ne egg. Boll until dissolved, and filler through flanne l.

Gum Syrup. T ako fourteen pounds of loaf s ugar. One gallon or watur. Boll together for five minutes, a nd add wate r to mnke up to two gallons. Lemon Syrup. Tako five gallons of gum syrup. Fout· ounces of tartaric acid . One ounce of oil of lemon. One pint alcohol. Cut tho oil of lemon h1 the a lcohol, ad

Essence of Lemon .

Take one ounce of oil of lemon.

One quat·t of alcohol (95 per cen t.). A half pint. of wate r. Ono and a half ounces of citric acid.

Grind lhe citric acid to a powdPr i n a porcelain mortar ; dlssoh·e It In lite water. T hen cut t he i)il or lemon In the a.lcohnl, and alld the acid water.