Cordial Waters

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (6)
for sealing the alembic
for sealing the hot still
Instructions (7)
  1. If your still is an alembic, fill the top with cold water when you set it on.
  2. Close the bottom of the alembic with a little stiff paste made of flour and water.
  3. If you use a hot still, when you put on the top, dip a cloth in white lead and oil, and lay it close over the eggs.
  4. Lay a coarse cloth well soaked in water on the top of the hot still.
  5. When the cloth on the hot still becomes dry from the heat of the fire, wet it, and lay it on again.
  6. It will require but little fire, but what there is must be as clear as possible.
  7. All simple waters must stand two or three days before they are bottled off, that the fiery taste which they will naturally receive from the still, may be fully extracted.
Original Text
CORDIAL WATERS. In the process of making these articles, several things are necessary to be observed, in order to bring them to their proper state of perfection. If your still is an alembick, you must fill the top with cold water when you set it on, and close the bottom with a little stiff paste made of flour and water. If you use a hot still, when you put on the top, dip a cloth in white lead and oil, and lay it close over the eggs, and a coarse cloth well soaked in water on the top; and when it becomes dry from the heat of the fire, wet it, and lay it on again. It will require but little fire, but what there is must be as clear as possible: All simple waters must stand two or three days before they are bottled off, that the fiery taste which they will naturally receive from the still, may be fully extracted.
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