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GIGGLE WATER
Ions 95 per cent, alcohol. Add 103 gallons sugar S)rrup
10° Baume. Stir 15 minutes and let it rest 4 or 5 ^ys,
then filter. Add 2 or 3 sheets of filtering paper.
62. ANISE SEED CORDIAL
Dissolve 3 drachms of oil of anise seed in 2^ gallons
of 95 per cent alcohol; then add 2^ gallons of fine white
syrup, mixed with 4^ gallons of water. Stir and filter.
63. CARAWAY CORDIAL
Dissolve 6 drachms oil of caraway in 3 gallons 95 per
cent alcohol; add a syrup made of 42 pounds of sugar
and 494 gallons of water. Filter.
64. CORDIALS BY DISTILLATION
The solid ingredients should be coarsely pounded or
bruised before digestion in the spirit, and this should be
done immediately before putting them into the cask or
vat; as, after they are bruised, they rapidly lose their
aromatic properties by exposure to the air. The practice
of drying the ingredients before pounding them, adopted
by some workmen for the mere sake of lessening the
labor, cannot be too much avoided, as the least exposure