SC - Aqua vitae recipes from The Art of Distilation (fwd)

[Jenne Heise]

Found this in my sent mail from last year. Might be useful to someone.
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:46:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jenne Heise <jenne at tulgey.browser.net>
To: SCA-dist2 at onelist.com
Subject: Aqua vitae recipes from The Art of Distilation


Two very simple recipes for aqua vitae/spirits of wine:

	How to make Aqua vitae, and Spirts of Wine out of Wine
Take of whatever wine you please, put it into a copper still, two parts of
three being empty, distill it with a worm untill no more spirit come off,
then this spirit will serve for the making of any spirits out of
vegetables; but if thou wouldst have it stronger distill it again, and
half will remain behind as an insipid flegm; and if thou wouldst have it
yet stronger, distill it again, for every distillation wil leave behind
one moity of flegm or thereabouts; so shalt thou have a most pure and
strong spirit of wine.


	How to make aqua vitae out of beer
Take of stale strong-beer or rather the grounds there of, put it into a
copper still with a worm, distill it gently (or otherwise it will make the
head of the Still fly up) and there will come forth a weak spirit, which
is called low wine; of which when thou hast a good quantity thou mayest
distill it again of it self, and there will come forth a good Aqua vitae.
And if thou distillest it two or three times more, thou shalt have as
strong a spirit as out of wine, and indeed betwixt which and the spirit of
wine, thou shalt percieve none or very little difference. 


Jadwiga Zajaczkowa mka Jennifer Heise	
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