SC - Aqua vitae recipes from The Art of Distilation (fwd)
Jenne Heise
jenne at tulgey.browser.net
Wed Jun 28 07:32:35 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 because a historical reference suggested that period distillates would have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
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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