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To Imitate Cognac Brandy

+ gal. Sherry wine, 6 drachms black tea, infused (see "Black Tea").

Color with sugar coloring.

To make Brandy with Foreign Liquor.

RECIPE No. 11.

To 40 gals. pure spirits, 5 o. p., add : 5 66 Cognac brandy, gallon best Madeira wine.

This will make an excellent-flavored brandy, and, if desired, may be further improved by adding 1 lb. white glycerine, to give age and smoothness. Let it stand 8 or 10 days, and color as desired.

To Imitate Seignette Brandy.

RECIPE No. 12.

To 2 gals. pure proof spirit, add : 1 “ 1½ 66 soft or distilled water, Seignette brandy, a little black tea, and a few drops of acetic ether. Color if necessary.

To Imitate Cognac Brandy. By Dr. Ure.

RECIPE No. 13.

Dilute the pure alcohol to the proof pitch, add to every hundred pounds weight of it from half a pound to a pound of argol (crude wine-stone) dissolved in water, a little acetic ether, and French wine-vinegar, some bruised French plums, and flavor-stuff from Cognac ; then distill the mixture with a gentle fire, in an alembic, furnished with an agitator. The spirit which comes over may be colored with sugar coloring to the desired tint, and roughened in taste with a few drops of tincture of cate chu, or oak bark. The above recipe will afford a spirit TO CUT FOREIGN BRANDY WITH PURE SPIRITS. free from the deleterious drugs too often used to disguise and increase the intoxicating power of manufactured brandy; one which may be reckoned as wholesome as alcohol in any shape can ever be. Good judges think that brandy of this kind may be manufactured just as well without resorting to the process of distillation. To Imitate Cognac Brandy.