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and a little cinnamon. Then strain and filtrate the extract. Now prepare a syrup
of two pounds of sugar and a pint of water which purify with beaten whites of
egg. Mix the wormwood extract with the syrup, but no more than that the absinthe
becomes moderately thick, like an oil, for instance. Otherwise work it like
punsch and bottle it.
Absinthe in another way.
Take a pound wormwood leaves and let them become quite dry, in the shed if you
can, and in an airy place. Afterwards put them in three quarts good alcohol,
where it is to remain two weeks, then to be strained into a pan standing in
another vessel filled with water. Mix it now with about 2 ounces gum arabic
dissolved in 1/2 pint water and pint thick sugar syrup.
Angelica liquor.
Pick the leaves of a couple of angelica twigs, cut them in small pieces and put
them in good alcohol mixed with sugar, dissolved in water; a few cloves and a
little cinnamon. Let it
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