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VINEGARS. 



269. D ift ilk a Vinegar. 



Fill a flone cucurbit about three parts 

 and a half full of White Wine Vinegar ; 

 place the vefiel in a furnace fo contrived 

 as to contain three parts of the height of 

 the cucurbit; mould the openings that 

 remain between the fides and the upper 

 part of the vefTel with clay tempered with 

 water; lute the vefiel, fix on a receiver, 

 and begin your diftillation with a moderate 

 fire, which is to be increafed by degrees 

 till about five fixths of the Vinegar are 

 drawn off, which is called Diftilled Vine- 

 gar. A fmall quantity of acid Liquor 

 ffill remains in the cucurbit of the con- 

 fidence of Honey, which if you think pro- 

 per may be dried hard by the affiftance of 

 a vapour-bath. The Vinegar diftilled 



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