Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

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Brandies and Whiskeys, Factitious

Curacoa.

Common whiskey, 5 galls; fresh orange-peel, 4 lbs.; oil of bitter almonds, oil of cassia, of each, 1 dr.; oil of lemon, 2 drs.; oil of cinnamon, 50 drops; water, 5 qts., to dissolve refined sugar, 16 lbs.; tincture of cochineal, a pt.; burnt sugar, 3 oz.; allow the above to digest for 5 days; the whole of the oils should be dissolved in a glass of alcohol, and mix well.

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