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138
MANUFACTURE
OF
LOW
PROOF
SPIRIT.
mean
origin
or
rather
it is
indebted
to
a
barrel
of
whiskey
for
its
existence
;
and,
on
the
other
hand,
persons
of
intelligence
reject
high
colored
liquors,
as
the
excess
of
coloring
favors
the
notion
that
the
spirit
is
an
imitation.
And
thus
between
the
two
extremes
of
ignorance,
the
operator
will
be
guided
by
a
sense
of
common
discretion.
Under
the
present
improved
mode
of
manufacturing
spirits,
burnt
sugar
alone
is
unsuited
for
brandy.
As
all
good
imitations
are
not
of
a
brown
color,
rather
of
a
purplish
brown,
made
by
the
addition
of
red
;
for
this,
use
cochineal
for
the
finest,
and
tincture
of
sanders
wood
for
the
common
(see
directions
for
preparing
this
tincture)
;
for
the
third,
use
red
beets.
The
two
last
are
used
in
domestic
brandies.
OTARD
BRANDY.
Clean
spirit,
one
hundred
gallons
:
honey,
six
gal-
lons,
dissolved
in
two
of
water
;
catechu,
five
ounces
;
Jamaica
rum,
seven
gallons
;
acetic
ether,
five
ounces
;
half
a
glass
of
spirit
of
orange
peel
(see
directions
for
making
these
spirituous
essences)
;
and
four
ounces
of
spirits
of
orr?s
root.
Color
this
pale
by
the
addition
of
one
and
a
half
pints
of
sugar
coloring,
and
half
a
pint of
tincture
of
cochineal.
See
directions
for
preparing
all
of
the
tinctures
for