1908 The World's Drinks and How to Miw Them by Hon Wm Boothby (1st edition)

USEFUL FORMULAS.

121

TO REDUCE HOLLAND GIN.

518

To twenty-five gallons of pure Holland gin add twenty-five gallons of pure

French spirit and half a gallon of pure sugar syrup. Mix thoroughly.

TO REMOVE ROPINESS FROM WINE.!

51e

Add a little catechu or a few bruised mountain ash berries.

TO REFLATE SILVERWARE.

520

A WONDERFUL RECIPE.

Dissolve a fifty·cent silver piece in one ounce of nitric acid. After the

silver is dissolved or stops boiling, add a strong solution of salt water. This

crystallizes the silver. Wash this precipitate in warm soft water until the

acids are entirely removed, letting the silver settle before pouring off the

liquid; when the water is clear, the silver is pure. Then put the silver into

a soluti on composed of two ounces of cyanuret of potassium and two pints of

soft water.

Use an earthen bowl for dissolving

silver. Before putting the silver into the

pounds of whiting in a water pitcher.

thoroughly. Let this dry and

rub

again.

the silver, and heat the bowl

acid dissolve the cyanuret with

Apply with a soft ·rag and

TO RESTORE FLAT WINE.

and

two

rub

521

To restore flat wine add ab out f ur or five pouncls of white sugar,

pound

of pure strained honey and a handful of good Fresno raisins to every hundred

gallons of wine. A little spirits may also be added. Rummage well, bung

carefully, a nd the longer it stands afterwards the bette r.

TO SOBER A DRUNK.

522

small dose of sal volatile or volatile salts in a wineglass of water, and

repeated in a J:ialf hour, will effectually sober any one intoxicated. The quick–

est way is to take an emetic :firnt, then dose as above in a half hour.

Half a whiskey glassful of pure olive oil is highly recommended also, as

it lies on top of everything else that might be in the stomach and prevents

all fumes from going to the brain.

lemon sour is often prescribed by bartenders, but experience has taught

me t hat the patient is sometimes made very sick nt the stomach by this treat·

ment, aud co nsC'qnently I ne1·C'r recommend our

e pecially

the sou r

not,

.11-bso)u~el,Y

fresh

·squeez.ed