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Indies. and in this country is chiefly used to make punch. Arrack is distilled from the fermented juice of the cocoa nut and the fermented infusion of rice in husk or ricebeer. Some varieties are pleasant flavored and as wholesome as the other spirits of commerce, but the inferior qualities are regarded as more heating and apt to disagree with the stomach than either brandy, whiskey , rum, or gin. When sliced pine-apples are put into good arrack, and the spirit kept for some time, it mellows down and acquires a most delicious flavor, and is thought by many to be then unrivaled for making nectarial punch.

To 12 gals. pale rum, add : 2 oz. flowers of benzoin, 1½" balsam of Tolu, 1 " sliced pine-apple.

Digest with occasional agitation for a month; then add : pint raw milk. Agitate well for 15 minutes, and rack in a week. A fine imitation.

To make Batavia Arrack.

RECIPE No. 11.

To 8 gals. rice spirit, 10 o. p., add : 66 3 fine Batavia arrack, 4 drachms tincture of flowers of benzoin.

This is a splendid imitation of the genuine article. Auction Rum.

Is prepared from plain or neutral spirit. The spirit is educed to any proof with soft water, and a fictitious strength is given with Guinea pepper, grains of Paradise, and pellitory, about one fourth genuine Jamaica rum is added, together with beading and coloring. (See "Auction Brandy.") Like all auction liquors, this is cheap,