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

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FILTEATION.

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be provided as many pails as there are filterers in use; foi each pail there must be apiiortioned half of a sheet of blot ting paper, prepared as follows: rub each piece of paper in your hands until it becomes smooth and pliant, as near to cloth as possible; then place it in the pail with a little water, constantly beating it and rubbing it together with the hands until it comes to the consistency of a soft or pulpy matter; afterward more water should be added, continuing the process of beating up the pulpy substance similar to the usual mode of beating up eggs; the pad must then befilled,and the contentsthrown into the filterer When the water has run through,fill uir again so as to keep the filterer fud, and when the water runs clear let the whole of the water pass tlirough, and the bag is prepared to filter. Place a fiv-egal'.on demijohn under the filterer, with funnel, fill another demijohn with the liquor to b«