Bryant, William Baily.

Nineteenth Century Handbook On The Manufacture of Liquors, Wines and Cordials Without the Aid of Distillation. Also the Manufacture of Effervescing Beverages and Syrups, Vinegar and Bitters. Prepared and Arranged Expressly for the Trade.

Owensboro, KY: Industrial Publishing Company, 1895.

7-1/4" x 5". 1st edition (Gabler G14610, incorrectly listing an 1885 publication date). Not in Cagle. vi, [2 (blank)], 310 pp. 6 page insert, giving 'Stuck's Formulas', 'Duke's Liquor Recipes' & Davis' Formulas' [mostly for Whiskey] found prior to p. 1. Advertising matter pp. 301 - 310. P. 71 misnumbered 70; 267 as 167 & pp. 273 - 280 as 173 - 180. Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with gilt spine lettering (professionally recased). Spine lettering faded & binding cloth soiled. Hinge paper renewed. A very good copy. Somewhat uncommon, with OCLC recording just one institutional holding [there was also a later 1899 edition, in but 4 copies].

Water, one gallon; sulphuric acid, to the strength of weak vinegar; honey, one pint; powdered alum, one-half ounce; one sliced red beet and a half-pint strong tincture of logwood; one drop oil of wintergreen dissolved in a wineglassful of alcohol; one half of a grain of ambergris rubbed up in sugar; one pint tincture of grains of paradise. Any kind of bright sugar or syrup will answer in the place of the honey, and in less quantities. This wine, when prepared on a large scale, can be made at a very low price, as the honey is the only article that is of value, the tincture of the grains of paradise being substituted for spirit; and any quantity of it can be prepared at the shortest notice. The coloring is kept prepared in barrels for use. When the beets are added, the mixture is allowed to stand for the coloring to become discharged from them for several days."  - Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Price: $1,200.00