OLD APPARATUS USED FOR CONDENSING THE DISTILLATE.
(From the title-page of the second volume of Brunschwig’s “Liber de Arte Distillandi,” 1507.)
To make Hamburgh Bitters.—Digest for a week, in a closed vessel, a mixture of a gallon of rectified spirits, a gallon of water, two ounces of cinnamon, one ounce each of wormwood, quassia, calamus root, and centaury, half an ounce each of aniseed, orris, coriander, and cloves, and a dram each of ginger, cardamoms, and mace. Distil off one gallon, and add syrup (made by heating three pounds of sugar in three pints of water) and three pints of water.
To make Kirschenwasser.—Digest for a week, in a closed vessel, a mixture of a gallon of rectified spirits, half a gallon of water, a pound of crushed cherry stones, half a pound of crushed apricot stones, an ounce of dried peach leaves, and two drams of myrrh. Distil off a gallon, and add three pints of spirit of noyau (made by distilling off three pints from a digested mixture of three pints of rectified spirits, a pint and half of water, and a pound of bruised apricot stones), a pint of orange-flower water, a gallon and a half of rectified spirits, syrup (made by heating thirty pounds of sugar in three gallons of water), and water to make up to eight and a half gallons.
To make Kummel.—Digest for a week, in a closed vessel, a mixture of a gallon of rectified spirits, a gallon of water, half a pound of caraway-seeds, three drams of orris root, and an ounce of fennel seeds. Distil off one gallon, and add syrup (made by heating seven and a half pounds of sugar in three quarts of water) and a quart of water.
“Beholde here a manner or fashion of Balneo Mariæ, verye excellent, of which the vessell large and greate is of tynne; the bottome or bellye of the same standing wythin the boyling water. On thys great vessell is Lymbeck of Tynne, covered and compassed of another vessell like of Tynne farre larger.”
(From Baker’s “The Newe Jewell of Health,” 1576.)
To make Lemon Cordial.—Proceed as for cinnamon cordial, substituting three-quarters of a pound of dried lemon-peel for the cinnamon.
OLD VESSELS USED IN DISTILLING.
(From Baker’s “Jewell of Health,” 1576.)