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IMITATION
OF
JAMAICA
BUM.
97
CHERRY
BRANDY
(CHEAP).
Corn
whiskey,
twenty
gallons
;
water,
seventeen
gallons
;
loaf
sugar,
twenty-five
to
fifty
pounds
;
tincture
of
grains
of
paradise,
one
and
a
half
gallons
;
pellitory,
one
pint
;
five
ounces
of
ground
mustard,
one-half
ounce
of
sulphuric
acid
;
cloves,
one-half
ounce,
bruised
;
cassia,
one
ounce
;
one-half
pound
bruised
bitter
almonds.
Color
with
six
red
beets,
sliced,
and
one-half
pint
of
burnt
sugar
coloring.
If
the
acid
in
either
of the
above
is
not
clearly
percep-
tible
to
the
palate,
it
should be
added
until
it
is.
RUM.
The
best
is
Jamaica
rum.
This
rum
is
indebted
to
the
mode
of
its
distillation
for
its
superiority,
which
consists
in
conducting
the
process
of
distillation
very
slowly.
IMITATION
OF
JAMAICA
RUM.
Clean
proof
spirit,
100
gallons
;
sugar
refined,
dissolved
in
five
gallons
water,
sixty
pounds
;
pale
ale,
five
gallons
;
sulphuric
acid,
two
ounces
;
Jamai-
ca
rum,
eight
to
twelve
gallons
;
acetic
ether,
eight
ounces
;
burnt
sugar,
one
and
a
half
pints
;
tincture
of
sanders,
half
a
pint.
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