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

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POETEE.

40 lemons, tlic juice only. Llix together and add to the first mixture; filter.

289. Parfait Amour. (Perfect Love.)

8 ounces of cedrat rinds. 4 do. lemon peels. i do. cloves.

Ground; macerate for 24 hours with 3 gallons of alco> hoi, 95 per cent., and gallons of water (see No.5); dis til from oifthe water 3 gallonsoffiavored alcohol; add 30 lbs. of sugar dissolved in gallons of water; color deep red, and filter. (See Nos.3 and 93.)

290. Porter.

21 gallons ofbrown malt. 31 ounces of hops. 2^ do. molasses. 31 do. liquorice.

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6 grains of pimentum. 24' do. extract of Spanish liquorice, do. coculi indici. 221 ^o. ginger. 3 do. heading, or extract of dark burned malt. All suhstanti.al articles are to be ground;then add 6 gtJ- lons of water at 144° of Fahrenheit, stir well together, let stand for li hour; draw otf the liquor as much as pos sible. Repeat the same operation with 3 gallons for the 2d and 3d time; mix these liquors,boil them ; clarify with the white of1 or 2eggs; cool as quick as possible to 50° of Fahrenheit(see No.6); add 1 lb. of yeast, and fill up in casks when the fermentation is over. ^ pint ofcoloring (see No. 88.) ^ do. half-burnt coloring.