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36. ELEPHANT'S MILK
Take 2 ounces gum benzoin, i pint spirit of wine, 2>^
pints boiling water. When cold, strain and add 1^2 pounds
sugar.
37. HUILE DE VENUS
' Take 6 ounces of flowers of wild carrot, picked, 10
pints spirit of wine. Distill in a bath heat. To the spirit
add as much syrup of Capillaire; it may be colored with
cochineal.
38. LIGNODELLA
Take the thin peel of 3 oranges and 3 lemons; steep
them in Yz gallon of brandy or rum, close stopped for
2 or 3 days. Then take 3 quarts of water and i >4 pounds
of loaf sugar clarified with the whites of 2 eggs. Let it
boil 54 hour, then strain it through a fine sieve, and let
it stand till cold; strain the brandy with the peels, add
the juice of 3 oranges and 5 lemons to each gallon. Keep
it close stopped up 5 weeks, then bottle it.
39. MARASCHINO
I gallon proof whiskey, 2 quarts of water, dissolve 4
pounds of sugar, 54 dram oil of bergamot, ^ dram oil