1860 A Treatise on the Manufacture , Imitation, Adulteration and Reduction of Foreign Wines, Brandies, .

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CORDIAL.

The very best quality of sugar is required,

so as to insure a fine, transparent sirup, which

must be made according to the instruction in

the

Cordials which require fining may be fined

with the whites of six to ten eggs to the barrel,

or hy the addition of a little alum, either alone

or followed by a little carbonate of soda or

potassa, dissolved in water. In from ten days

to two weeks the liquor will be clear.