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THE MIXICOEOGIST.
SYRUPS, ESSENCES, TINCTURES,
ETC.
These preparations consist of ingredients used in
the following recipes for making prepared punches,
cocktails, etc.
Plain Syrup.
Take 6^^ pounds of loaf-sugar,
gallon of water.
The white of i egg.
Boil until dissolved, and filter through flannel.
Gum Sjrrup.
Take 14 pounds of loaf-sugar.
I gallon of water.
Boil together for five minutes, and add water to
make up to 2 gallons.
Lemon Syrup.
Take 5 gallons of gum syrup.
4 ounces of tartaric acid.
I ounce of oil of lemon.
I pint of alcohol.
Cut the oil of lemon in the alcohol, add the tar
taric acid, and mix thoroughly with the syrup.