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POLICE GAZETTE
Birch Wine.
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In February or March, bore boles In birch trees, nnd
when you have secured nine gallons juice, boil and skim,
cooling it clown to one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. Dis–
solve in nine pounds sugar, addi11g t wo ounces lemon, cut
fine ; produce fermentation with one pint of glute n. Keep
l;rg full co11stantly; when the fermenting Is over, draw it
ofT
and strnln, or filter into another keg in which you have
burned a piece of brimstone po.per.
Blackberry Brandy.
Quarter ounce cardamom seeds, ground.
One ounce cinnamon.
Half ouncP mace.
Halt ounce cloves.
Threfl gallons juice of blackbPrry.
Ten gallons
95
per cent. a lcohol.
Four ounces white syrup.
Thirteen gallons water.
Steep the spices In the alcohol for about seven or right
rlays ; fil ter the llq1101· and add the ol,her ingredir n ts.
Currant Brandy.
Take one qu,irt or black or red currnn ts, and
flll
11p
with
one quart of bm11dy.
In
L\vo
months s trni n, and nc.lrl s 11gnr
to taste.
Carraway Brandy.
Steep one ounce orcnrrn.way serd, bruised, In ono p int
of brnnc.ly.
In
one week strnin. Adrl s ix 01111 ees of loaf
s ugar.