1876 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon-Vivant's Companion 2$50 by Jerry Thomas

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EECIPES rOJl TEN GALLONS EACH.

202 Fining with Milk. ■f of a pint of good milk, boiled and cooled aHain, mixe;! with 10 gailoos of liquor; it will soon settle it.~ 203. Fining with Eggs. 2 egg whites beaten to froth; add a little alcohol; mix it with 10 gallons of liquor; it ivill soon settle it. 204. Fining with Potash. 1^ ounce of carbonate of potash, dissolved in 1pint ol water, mixed with 10 gallons of liquor, will soon settle it. 205. Fining with Alum. 3 drachms of powdered calcinated alum dissolved in alcohol, and mixed Avith 10 gallons of liquor, will soon settle it. 206. Fever Drops, 51lbs. of calamus-root. Ground; macerate for 8 days in 6 gallons of alcohol, 80 per cent, (see Fo. S); strain, press, and filter; then add 4 to 6 ounces of alcoholic extract of Peruvian bark dis solved in 5 gallons of alcohol, 80 per cent. Filter. (See No. 3.) Dose 3 to 4 teaspoonfuls a day. If do. • zedoary. If do. ginger. 3^ do. dried orange apples.

207. Gerofline, ^ ounce of oil of cloves dissolved in 3 gallons of alcohol,