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Take a gallon of rum, put to it a small quantity of the essence of lime, and a pound and a half of moist-sugar, a pint of lime-juice, and four quarts of water; boil the sugar and water together, scum it well, and when cold, put in a little isinglass finings, and white of an egg, with the essence and lime-juice, mix it well with the rum; and put it to settle; this is a proper shrub for publicans.

Shrub, in the West Indies, is often made as follows: take two quarts of rum, three pounds of sugar, dissolved in a pint of lime-juice, and mix it well with the rum; then put it in a small cask, or a large bottle to settle, and it will become mellow.

This is excellent in punch.

Take 12 gallons of water, boil it and mix it with 12 pounds of treacle; put it in a cask, and when near cold, put in a pot of essence of spruce, (as it is sold by the Druggest) mixed with some of the liquor; then add half a pint of good yeast, stir it well up, keep out the bung three or four days till it has done working; then fine it with half an ounce of isinglass, and stir it thoroughly; bung it, audand [sic] in ten days bottle it off into stone quart bottles, and wire the corks.