SC - Falafel (Was Roman handfoods)

Jeff Heilveil heilveil at uiuc.edu
Wed Jun 28 07:45:21 PDT 2000


> 
> Do you happen to have the date on the Art of Distillation?  I'm interested,
> because a historical reference suggested that period distillates would have
> been only around 40 proof, but these recipes suggest that multiple
> distillations put it up in the 170 to 190 proof range.
> 

These were taken from the original printing:

French, John. The art of distillation. (The second edition, to which is
added, The London-distiller) Printed by E. Cotes for Thomas Williams,
London, 1653. 

However, there is are several online versions:

Art of Distillation, John French. 1651. Facsimile online via University of
Pennsylvania, Schoenberg Center for Text and
Image: http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/smith/french/ 
Text version online as part of an alchemy project:
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/jfren_ar.html 

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